Provision a few web servers in a region with a load balancer
Machines with a simple single-JAR Java webapp that listens on port 8080. Installs the JVM, Python, supervisord and the simple Java app.
Listens on port 80, maps to 8080 on internal instances with all AZs mapped to the ELB
Pre-compiled fat JAR with all dependencies for Java 7+ is included in the cookbook for ease of deployment. If you need to make changes, the source for it is in src/ and then the JAR is build with Maven using the package target.