Now we have an artifact (or a package of software) and we are ready for deployment. There are two opposite directions in which we can go: deploy on your own infrastructure (aka server that we control and manage also called an in-house server) or deploy using a cloud provider, like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and many others.

The advantage of using a cloud provider is that you only rent the infrastructure for the time you are using it. Using a cloud provider, you can focus on actually building and maintaining the application and forget about the hardware and scalability issues.

Which option makes more sense, it is up to you. For some of the reasons mentioned above, cloud services have risen greatly in popularity in the last years.

The following lectures will show to use Amazon AWS to deploy a Java application.