Install Tomcat 7 on Amazon Linux instance

In the previous post we spoke about how to build and configure Amazon EC2 Linux instance in terms of free tier offered by Amazon. Amazon propose list of services in scope of cloud platform where we can easily deploy and launch simple web application or test existing web solution. We've decided to use Amazon cloud platform as staging environment where Tomcat 7 web-server will be installed.

The process of installing Tomcat 7 web-server is very simple, furthermore Tomcat 7 included in the package repository of Amazon Linux AMI.