Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying, managing and testing Java EE applications on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) and VMware environments. There are three main parts to Cloud Tools:

* EC2Deploy - the core framework. This framework manages virtual instances (e.g. EC2), configures MySQL, Tomcat, Terracotta and Apache and deploys the application. See this blog entry for an overview.
* Maven and Grails plugins that use EC2Deploy to deploy an application
* Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are configured to run Tomcat and work with EC2Deploy. See list of installed software.