Day 5 of the 12 Days of Christmas: BoxLang + Cloud Servers, Deploy Anywhere, Scale Everywhere 🎄
One of the most powerful parts of the BoxLang ecosystem is how easily it can run anywhere — locally, on-premise, containers, and especially in the cloud. Today we’re highlighting BoxLang Cloud Servers, our official, optimized virtual machines available across major cloud platforms. ☁️⚡
If you’re building BoxLang, ColdBox, or CommandBox applications, these cloud-ready images give you a fast, secure, and scalable way to deploy your apps with minimal configuration and maximum performance.
🌐 What Are BoxLang Cloud Servers?
BoxLang Cloud Servers are pre-configured, production-ready virtual machines created specifically for running BoxLang applications.
They’re available across multiple cloud providers:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Ubuntu & Windows AMIs
- Microsoft Azure — Ubuntu VM images
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — Coming soon
- IBM Cloud — Coming soon
These servers come optimized with the latest BoxLang runtime, optional CommandBox integration, and configurations tuned for cloud workloads.
👉 More info: boxlang.io/hosting
👉 Step-by-step academy series: learn.boxlang.io/series/BoxLang-Cloud-Servers
This documentation is born out of a need to keep introducing our customers to new and innovative products. There are just too many folks who want to be in the Cloud but have no idea of how to get there. This guide is intended to be a journal on how to move your products to the ANY cloud using any of the supported providers.
Supported Providers
- Amazon Web Services (
Available now!) - Azure Cloud (
Available now!) - Google Cloud (
Available now!) - Digital Ocean (
Coming soon)
⚙️ Key Features & Advantages
BoxLang Cloud Servers were designed to eliminate the heavy lifting of cloud deployment:
🚀 Pre-Configured & Optimized
Spin up a server that already includes:
- BoxLang Runtime
- BoxLang MiniServer or CommandBox
- Tuning for cloud environments
- Security best practices baked in
📈 Cloud-Ready & Scalable
Whether you run one instance or scale to dozens, you get:
- Load balancer compatibility
- Auto-scaling potential
- Flexible OS support (Ubuntu, Windows, Red Hat)
🔐 Enterprise-Grade Security
Hardened images, cloud security groups, and cloud-native firewalls to keep your apps safe.
💰 Cost-Effective
Pay only for the resources you launch — ideal for startups, enterprise teams, or personal projects.
🏗️ How Cloud Deployment Works
A typical architecture looks like this:
- Load Balancer → distributes traffic
- BoxLang VM Instances → run your BoxLang apps (Ubuntu or Windows)
- Database Layer → MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Object Storage → files, assets, media
- Cloud Provider Network → firewalls, IAM, security policies
This setup gives you a scalable, reliable, cloud-native BoxLang environment with minimal manual configuration.
☁️ Deploying BoxLang on AWS, Azure & Google Cloud
Below is a quick overview of deploying BoxLang on each major platform. Full tutorials are available in the BoxLang Academy Cloud Series.
🟦 Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS provides EC2 AMIs with Windows or Ubuntu BoxLang images.
Steps
- Launch an EC2 instance from the BoxLang AMI
- Choose an instance type (e.g.,
t2.microfor low traffic) - Configure Security Groups
- Allow HTTP / HTTPS
- Allow SSH / RDP for admin access
Your BoxLang MiniServer or CommandBox server is ready to go immediately.
🟪 Microsoft Azure
Azure offers Ubuntu-based images through the Azure Marketplace.
Steps
- Create a Virtual Machine in the Azure Portal
- Select your compute size
- Configure inbound rules
- HTTP / HTTPS
- SSH for access
Perfect for enterprise teams already using Azure DevOps or Azure’s security tooling.
🟥 Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
GCP support is coming soon with Compute Engine VM images tailored for BoxLang.
Steps (when available)
- Create a VM via Google Cloud Console
- Pick your machine type (E2, N2, etc.)
- Open firewall rules for HTTP / HTTPS
Stay tuned — official GCP images are on the way.
🎓 BoxLang Academy: Cloud Server Series
To make cloud deployment even easier, we offer a free hands-on academy series:
👉 https://learn.boxlang.io/series/BoxLang-Cloud-Servers
In the series, you’ll learn how to deploy:
MiniServer Flavors
- BoxLang MiniServer on Windows
- BoxLang MiniServer on Ubuntu
- BoxLang MiniServer on Red Hat
CommandBox + BoxLang Flavors
- BoxLang + CommandBox on Windows
- BoxLang + CommandBox on Ubuntu
- BoxLang + CommandBox on Red Hat
Deployment Methods
- Cloud web consoles (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- CLI automation
- Terraform (IaC)
- SSH & RDP connectivity
- Deploying ColdBox, ContentBox & custom BoxLang apps
By the end, you'll know how to provision, connect, and manage BoxLang servers like a cloud-native pro. ⚡
Become a Pioneer or Get a Free Compatibility Report!
BoxLang is growing fast features are expanding, the ecosystem is thriving, and performance is turning heads. But the most exciting part? You can be part of shaping it from the very beginning.
The Pioneer Program is your gateway to early access, unmatched support, and unbeatable value. Here’s what you get:
- Everything in BoxLang+, and more:
- Professional support to get you running smoothly
- A dedicated Slack channel for direct access to our team, solve issues in seconds
- Priority handling for your feature requests and bug fixes
- Migration done with you, not just for you:
- Our engineers work alongside your team to migrate your apps end-to-end
- Guaranteed compatibility, we won’t stop until it works perfectly
- Big savings, no hidden tricks:
- At least 40% off your current licensing costs, locked in early, no surprise charges as you grow
Still Not Convinced?
If you’re unsure how BoxLang will work with your applications, or want clarity before making any decisions, we’ve created a simple, low-risk way to evaluate your path forward:
1. Free BoxLang Compatibility Report
What You Get (Free)
A personalized, expert-driven technical audit designed to help you:
- Determine how compatible your current CFML codebase is with BoxLang
- Identify modernization needs before migrating
- Understand the fastest and safest path to BoxLang adoption
- Receive direct, practical recommendations from the Ortus engineering team
This is a high-touch, hands-on audit — not an automated scan.
Due to demand, we’ve expanded the number of companies we can accept, but availability is still limited.
👉 Register now — it only takes 3 minutes:
https://forms.gle/QSzjmLVsVHQq59mH6
2. 1-Year Free Non-Production License
Test-drive BoxLang Premium features in your own environment, with no pressure.
- Explore advanced capabilities safely
- Experiment and validate assumptions
- Gain confidence before any production commitment
No rush. No lock-in. Just real experience.
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🎁 Day 5 Summary
BoxLang Cloud Servers make it incredibly easy to launch and scale BoxLang applications across major cloud providers:
- Pre-configured BoxLang runtimes
- Available on AWS & Azure (GCP coming soon)
- Optimized for performance, security & scalability
- Perfect for ColdBox, CommandBox & custom BoxLang apps
- Fully supported by the BoxLang Academy cloud series
As we continue the 12 Days of Christmas, we’re excited to bring you more tools, features, and resources that make the BoxLang ecosystem powerful and developer-friendly. 🎄🙂
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