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At the moment that appears so.

If you wanted something similar for Python or PHP then you could use VMWares VApp stuff which gives you the PaaS solution on top of hardware hosted by Colt which gives you the IaaS solution.

The reason that the VMWare offer gives you Python, PHP or other stuff, is that under-the-hood VMWare are using Chef and you can run your own custom Recipes, hence you could deploy whatever you want as a managed platform... though you would lose the Eclipse right-click deploy (though honestly if you're deploying from CI you're probably not going to be using this anyway).

Edit: It being almost impossible to just find simple and clear documentation on the VMWare site, this is the info link I've managed to unearth: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director/overview.html

The key point is that you could create a virtual datacenter, hosted with a 3rd party like Colt, and then use Chef to manage it as a platform, and deploy directly to it as if you owned your own "Elastic Beanstalk".

As an aside, I for one am getting tired of the never-ending list of acronyms and strange product names that are coming out from every vendor.