title: How does Tomcat work in AWS EC2
body: <p>Could anyone educate me a big piture of the Amazon EC2 Unix instance? I would like to know how Tomcat works in an EC2 instance so that in the future I know how to reconfigure/customize it.</p>
  
  <p>After I create/launch a new EC2 instance running with Tomcat server, everything seems to be well set up. It does not require additional configuration to have the Tomcat running and to deploy.</p>
  
  <p>When I connect to my instance and walk through this UNIX server, I have no idea how the structure is designed. For example, where is Tomcat located and what is linking to the Tomcat so that from AWS managment console UI I can just start/stop the server with a few mouse clicks.</p>
  
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  Please have me clarify if you found my statement unclear.</p>