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 # CloudProxy
 
-CloudProxy is a reverse proxy I use to forward request to Tomcat and CouchDB.
+CloudProxy serves as a very simple Reverse Proxy forwarding requests to Tomcat and CouchDB.
+Using CloudProxy makes Tomcat and CouchDB and potential other internal services accessible via port 80 (http).
+Can be used to make services running on Amazon EC2 accessible for applications running on Google AppEngine, which restricts outside calls to port 80.
+
 
 ## Development
 
 CloudProxy requires Erlang R14B03.
 
-To build CloudProxy, simply run `make`:
+To build CloudProxy, simply run `make`