AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy and run applications in multiple languages. It handles the infrastructure provisioning, capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring automatically, allowing developers to focus on writing code rather than managing infrastructure. Elastic Beanstalk supports applications developed in Go, Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby, as well as Docker containers. When you deploy your application, Beanstalk automatically launches an environment using preconfigured or custom platforms. Key features of Elastic Beanstalk include: 1. Multiple environment tiers: Web Server Environment for HTTP requests and Worker Environment for background processing tasks. 2. Deployment options: You can deploy application versions using several methods including all-at-once, rolling, rolling with additional batch, and immutable deployments. 3. Configuration: Easy customization of your environment via the console, CLI, or configuration files (.ebextensions) in your application source bundle. 4. Monitoring: Integration with CloudWatch for metrics and health monitoring. 5. Database integration: Option to add a database instance to your environment or connect to an external RDS instance. Beanstalk is ideal for developers who want to deploy applications quickly with minimal infrastructure knowledge. It abstracts away complexity while still allowing granular control when needed. For costs, you only pay for the underlying AWS resources (EC2, S3, etc.) that your application consumes - Elastic Beanstalk itself has no additional charge. When architecting solutions, consider Elastic Beanstalk when you need rapid application deployment with minimal operational overhead, especially for standard web applications where infrastructure management is not the primary focus.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy and run applications in multiple languages. It handles the infrastructure provisioning, capacity provisioning, load balan…

Concepts covered: Application Versions, Monitoring and Health, Worker Environments, Security and Access Control, AWS Elastic Beanstalk Components, Environments, Platform, Scaling, Deployment Strategies, Custom Domains and SSL, Backup and Disaster Recovery, AWS Elastic Beanstalk Configuration, Resource Management, Troubleshooting and Debugging