I'm pleased to announce the release of a major new online service: Aptana Cloud.

Aptana Cloud is the ultimate in ease and efficiency — a suite of online services integrated right into Aptana Studio 1.2 that puts the power of cloud computing to work for you. Cloud's integrated production, staging, source control, application monitoring, threshold and key event notifications systems, stats, logs, server tail views, team management, and tons of other features, streamlines your deployment and development processes and costs far less than doing it yourself.

Users who experienced Aptana Cloud through this summer's early access program have remarked as to how incredibly easy Aptana has made deploying, scaling, developing, and collaborating on hosted sites and applications. It's radically more efficient than anything you've seen or used before (and you can still use SSH and SFTP too). Aptana Cloud currently supports both Jaxer deployments as well as PHP deployments. The short screencast below gives you a good sense of the ease, and you can learn more at http://www.aptana.com/cloud.

Aptana Studio 1.2 also includes new capabilities beyond Aptana Cloud including faster performance, database explorer, bug fixes and UI enhancements all around.

Watch Cloud Screencast

Watch Studio Screencast