This sounds exactly like a situation that Amazon Elastic Beanstalk could handle. Elastic Beanstalk takes all of the configuration hassle out of the mix for you, and it takes care of launching the appropriate EC2 servers with Tomcat pre-installed. All you have to do it setup your WAR file and then set your scaling points.
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