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Aptana announced last week they're going to help developers deploy to the cloud, starting with Joyent's hosting services. So now Aptana is helping developers write JavaScript code with their IDE, run JavaScript and on the server with Jaxxer and now deploy their app to the web with the click of a button.

Dave Johnson and I were in San Francisco for JavaOne so we managed to catch up with Kevin Hakman of Atpana and get a quick demo. No joke he actually deployed an app to Joyent's hosting environment
in a matter of minutes all from Aptana. Down the road they plan to support to support other cloud services like Amazon AWS and Google App Engine.

From Aptana's site:

Aptana Cloud is a scalable Elastic Application Cloud™ featuring the most popular and widely adopted Web infrastructure, ready to use and ready to scale as you need it. Aptana Cloud also plugs right into your IDE to provide instant deployment, smart synchronization, and seamless migration as you scale. Aptana Cloud is ideal for developers who use scripting languages to create Ajax, Facebook, mySpace and all other sorts of Web applications.

I know a couple of the people on our team use Aptana for Ajax development today but I think we could benefit from Cloud. Dave and I are very excited to try it out.

Aptana Cloud has an early access program you can sign up for as well get more information here.