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August 10, 2019
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Review!
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a great tool to use for supercharging the speed to deploy basic applications that are fine running in fairly generic, but high-quality configurations. In using ELB, most of the complicated tasks of server setup are performed by AWS, so your developers are able to focus their efforts on developing your application and less time worrying about how to configure the deployment.
- Removes tedious, error-prone work from team focus for server configuration and environment setup.
- AWS creates new stacks when underlying software requires security updates, or frameworks release new versions.
- Greatly improves speed-to-production for many applications.
- Free resource on top of AWS; it costs nothing additional to use Elastic Beanstalk over the cost of the underlying instances and resources.
- Limited to the frameworks and configurations that AWS supports. There is no native way to use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a Go application behind Nginx, for example.
- It's not always clear what's changed on an underlying system when AWS updates an EB stack; the new version is announced, but AWS does not say what specifically changed in the underlying configuration. This can have unintended consequences and result in additional work in order to figure out what changes were made.
August 09, 2019
I am happy with my beans!
Elastic Beanstalk has been around for some time, but it never caught our eye until we started using AWS CodePipeline.
Currently, we use Elastic Beanstalk (EBS) to run applications on our pipeline. Each stage (dev, perf, prod) has its own set of servers defined under EBS. Our current solution is working very well with CodePipeline.
Currently, we use Elastic Beanstalk (EBS) to run applications on our pipeline. Each stage (dev, perf, prod) has its own set of servers defined under EBS. Our current solution is working very well with CodePipeline.
- Fits perfectly in our infrastructure. CodeCommit, CodePipeline, and AWS BeanStalk, work in perfect harmony.
- Easy to change deployment configurations. If I need more servers in my EBS, I just change configurations, and with a click of a button I get more servers. For example, moving from nano instances to micro, or simply adding/deleting more servers.
- Better security, and upgrade. I usually get small notifications of software/OS updates, and if I choose to, I can simply redeploy my application on an upgraded system.
- Different upgrade strategies. I haven't tested all [of them], but the current one has the transactional type capability, where if my deployment fails, it falls back to the previous stable one.
- Difficult to understand. No matter how cute and easy the AWS videos sound, I find it difficult to understand. There are just too many configurations.
- EBS is free, but you pay for the resources. Problem is, I end up using more resources, thus paying more.
- They could work on their logging system a bit more. I would love more dashboard metrics in logging, and an easier way to look at logs.
- An option to make the default URL more friendly. I am forced now to use Route 53 to get a more friendly DNS name, but would have loved if they would have provided a better name to begin with. There are long random strings which could go away.
August 20, 2019
Ideal for getting started
We use Elastic Beanstalk for an easy deployment of our API workloads. This allows your development teams to be agile and have regular releases with 0 downtime, and with minimal infrastructure worries as the VPC the workloads are deployed to are already securely locked down. Prior to this the development teams would have had to request a new server and go through the change control taking up to 1 week before a new release could be pushed out.
- Zero downtime deployments
- Auto scales, ensuring maximum flexibility.
- Auto scaling also provides a cost saving as you only use what you need.
- Agile deployments - dev environments regularly have 5+ releases a day.
- More flexibility on the subnet structure (depending on use case scenario and how your VPC is carved up you can run out of address space quickly if you want to spread workloads across multiple AZs).
- If development teams need Elastic Beanstalk admin access.....they automatically get EC2:* permisisons which isn't ideal.
- A lot of the drawbacks can be addressed by using ECS.
August 14, 2019
Amazon - never ceases to Amaze us!
AWS Elastic beanstalk makes it very easy for us to deploy the NodeJs applications which we create as part of any project instantly and this enables us to start using Node server without installing any required dependencies on cloud. Also when JAVA REST APIs are developed, the AWS Elastic beanstalk makes it extremely easy to deploy on the server, helping us with setting up environment time.
- Supports multiple popular languages to be deployed easily and helps in saving developers' time.
- Helps in scaling and load balancing based on the number of requests it is handling.
- Provides a neat monitoring system for the servers running along with the access to the logs which can also be downloaded if required.
- Can include more languages to be deployed (say Erlang) and not only popular languages.
- Issues in packaging large applications, say more than 2GB to be frequently deployed by uploading the packages to quickly test something.
- Takes considerable amount of time to just deploy simple applications on Elastic Beanstalk, can be frustrating for developers.
August 13, 2019
Elastic Beanstalk Review
We use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy Node.js applications. In the past, we had to provision a server and then determine capacities. Now all of that worry is gone. Just upload and go! I love it. Now when we are asked to determine max load of the "system" we can pretty much just say, unlimited.
- Fast to deploy
- Easy to get up and running
- Easy to manage
- Command line interface could be easier, but it still works.
- Documentation could be better
December 19, 2019
Solid cloud offering for web applications
We're using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to manage web applications on AWS. Our whole organization's infrastructure is deployed and managed using it. Our back-end is primarily node.js with some React. We use Elastic Beanstalk for the suite of its services including provisioning, load balancing, scaling and health monitoring.
- Excellent deployment, balancing, version control and scaling.
- Solid integration with other AWS services.
- Great for easily setting up and monitoring multiple parallel environments (dev, staging, prod)
- Works better for one app in an instance. Multiple apps gets trickier.
- Deployments sometimes fail.
September 03, 2019
The perfect PaaS tool if you are already using AWS
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is used by our company in certain departments for experimental purpose. We are still trying to evaluate its performance. The problem AWS Elastic Beanstalk is solving for us now is the PaaS. We need a platform that can provide the capacity of spinning up a website without managing any of the infrastructures like servers or databases.
- It is fully automatic. You just upload your codes and EB will take care of the rest.
- It's well integrated with other AWS services like build pipeline.
- Good technical support from the documentation.
- Troubleshooting can be a pain. You cannot see where it was wrong exactly when you encounter errors.
- It can be touchy sometimes. You need to be very careful about what you have done and keep records on it.
- Mainly the two above.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is being used by my organization as a serverless compute system where we can deploy code to run web applications without thinking about infrastructure thus drastically reducing the time to deployment/setup of my system. Elastic Beanstalk is being used primarily by our software development and devops teams to help streamline the deployment process.
- Deployment automation.
- Error handling.
- Documentation.
- User interface.
In my current project, we are using Elastic Beanstalk with tomcat8 application, and have 4 different development environments with it. We are using Elastic Beanstalk to deploy, configure, and monitor our product client. It creates ev2 instances at the back, and handles scalability and performance issues very well.
- Deployment management is very good.
- Configuration and monitoring are easy.
- There's no need for complicated configuration issues. You can deploy your application in minutes.
- It should accept deployment from S3 buckets.
- You cannot store old deployment packages up to 500.
November 20, 2019
Good tool for deployments
AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides a flexible, easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services. It supports various platforms such as Java, NodeJs, .NET, PHP, Python, Go, etc. We use it across all the departments of our organization. It solves our cloud deployment problems. So far it is very useful.
- User has an option to choose servers they want to deploy such as Apache, IIS, etc.
- It is bit slow sometimes.
August 23, 2019
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the bee's knees!
We use it for many of our clients. AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides a simple way to deploy, maintain and analyze our APIs.
- Easy to use.
- Extremely configurable.
- Deployment hooks could be a little more straight forward and easier to understand.
August 20, 2019
AWS Elastic Beanstalk, an easy way to move scale workloads
We are currently using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to help us augment workloads when we have promotions or campaigns that require a variable amount of computing. This allows us to scale as needed with little or no interaction as we focus on the campaign orchestration to maximize our business processes.
- Affordable way to scale computing with little involvement
- Easy set up and ramp up
- Good toolbox for several platforms with flexibility
- Spinning up additional nodes can sometimes be slow based on your implementation
- Testing the scaling can be tricky
- Implementation of your code still needs to be solid or else you'll have some issues
December 28, 2018
Application deployment and scaling made easy for AWS
Elastic Beanstalk handles the deployment and scaling of our applications without the need for any complicated setup, and yet still gives us full control over the provisioning and details of our deployed application. It's used by the developers to deploy our app, but the entire organization benefits from it. It saves us time and money.
- Easy to set up deployment of many technologies.
- Handles everything from app to database.
- Integrates into IDEs for easy deployment.
- For .NET - it doesn't quite compete with some of the Azure stuff when it comes to ease of use.
- When there are problems, they can be hard to track down what went wrong.
- It's AWS - so it always has that AWS learning curve for getting set up initially and configuring things.
January 30, 2018
Amazon's Giant Beanstalk
We use Beanstalk across our entire organization. It has tremendously helped us stay current, scale to necessary size, and deploy web based content and applications. Being cloud based is a huge bonus, due to its always-on nature and failsafes pout in place to ensure the safety, reliability and availability of our content and data. It has been instrumental.
- Cost effective
- Scalable and reliable
- LOADS of features
- AWS as a whole can be intimidating, or hard to learn
- Additional complexities are added at times due to nature of AWS/Cloud
January 24, 2018
Scalable EBS
We primarily use AWS Elastic Beanstalk (EBS) for client production websites. The EBS is set up to autoscale, so it works well for when our client's site traffic spikes. Additionally, our development team uses the Atlassian Bamboo to build and deploy to EBS.
- Scalability: The ability to autoscale based on traffic helps with availability and overall cost.
- Amazon RDS: The RDS can be set up as a part of the EBS configuration or separately. This process to connect a separate RDS or external DB can be challenging, mainly due to security groups and permissions.
- Application Bundle: When updating an EBS, an application bundle needs to be created. The application bundle is a ZIP file of the entire website. This would be bothersome if you only need to change one code file. But if this file is part of a website that was built on a multi-file/folder framework, you will be required to zip the entire site and push the zip file to an an S3 bucket for deployment. Single file updates are not possible.
May 29, 2018
More like FANTASTIC Beanstalk!
We use Elastic Beanstalk as a quick and easy way to implement test environments in our development process. It allows us to quickly configure deployment scenarios and do testing that would otherwise take ages to set up with traditional in-house server technologies. We can easily scale up and down and test our apps against a true to life deployment configuration. It is only used by the development team.
- Extremely easy to get set up and get apps deployed.
- Integrates really well with existing build processes and is manageable through a suite of CLI tools.
- It is very easy to scale up.
- The documentation is exceptionally detailed and covers a very wide range of deployment scenarios.
- The product is generally very good, but if there is one thing I'd improve it is the web-based user interface for managing instances.
June 21, 2018
AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Scales as advertised
I used this as a backend hosting solution for my portfolio. I was looking to dive deeper into AWS solutions and this was a fairly easy way to do so with little upfront knowledge. I was looking at alternatives to hosting my site on another service's linux hosting solution and opted to give this try.
- Scales well
- Easy to spin up
- CLI tools are great
- Documentation was either lacking or too complicated for a beginner
- The act of removing an instance took me several days to be sure it was actually removed and I wouldn't get billed for it
- Billing information and estimates are hard to follow
February 15, 2018
AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes deployment and scaling easy
I used Elastic Beanstalk for my social networking application, Pindigo. It is a Node application I built it in my free time that serves a user base of roughly 2k users. Elastic Beanstalk allowed me to deploy my application with little configuration and effort.
- Auto-scaling
- Load-balancing
- Provisioning
- I wish the storage configuration was a little more intuitive. It would be nice to get up and running without having to learn about S3 first.
- Interface isn't as streamlined or intuitive as it probably could be.
February 06, 2018
the.worst.service.ever
We started using this service because we needed high reliability and good support. So we began hosting our app with it immediately
- Readily available environments
- server crashed and reset, losing our files, within the first week, and again later
- support was a minimum of $27 and they did not give a response as to why the server reset
- the most unreliable hosting i've ever used in more than 10 years of web development
- all amazon's services are over-thought in nature
January 30, 2018
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Review
I'm using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy and manage my personnel web application. The free tier is amazing if you want to try it out, as Amazon provides fair free tier usage, so that you can try it out without paying anything. You just need to be careful about the traffic.
- Elastic Beanstalk is a great product that provides tools for running your web application in few simple steps.
- It works on top of the AWS EC2 and provides autoscaling, logging, monitoring for you out of the box.
- Its security features are great, for those who are looking for it.
- Their help and support is exceptional.
- It has so many options and packages, that it is overwhelming for a newcomer.
- I don't like the dynamic attribution of security groups: the names are random, so it's hard to understand what is going on.
- The only disadvantage of using EBS is that the instance that gets setup as a part of the EBS environment isn't customizable since the users do not have access to that instance.
We used AWS Beanstalk for our Global Client in Telecom Domain. In our customer environment Elastic Beanstalk,(hereafter EB) we can quickly deploy and manage Customer applications in the AWS Cloud without sizing of the infrastructure that runs those applications. AWS EB reduces management complexity without restricting choice or control. We simply upload customer application, and EB will automatically handle the details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring.
- load balancing,
- monitoring
- dynamic capacity provision
- need to create some easy step to deploy the BS in production environment. where data and application are mission critcical
February 15, 2017
Simple and powerful application deployment and scaling
We have an API server that gets millions of requests every day and we needed a system that makes our deployments easier and our app server scalable depending on certain load conditions. Even though we had some downtime using Elastic Beanstalk, we were successful in setting up highly scalable deployments. A silly mistake caused this and had us require a lot of work and consultation with AWS support in order to fix it. After couple of changes to our EB configurations we have achieved finally higher scalability.
- One can deploy their application from project archive or as docker container
- With almost no setup you can easily have a failover, load balanced cluster on AWS
- Through the Elastic Beanstalk console one can manage all your environments without an issue
- Status reporting can be improved. Sometimes there are some false errors that pops up while doing an active deployment.
- It's more expensive than their competitors
- Lack of opensource APIs
April 19, 2016
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
It is the main tool that we to deploy our website. We host our main back-end server as well as host our database. In addition, I have deployed many personal applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. It's incredibly easy to deploy, build, and scale, and I plan to use it for all my future projects. The speed and reliability are top notch and I would recommend it over a product such as Heroku.
- Easy to deploy. It's incredibly easy to build a war file and deploy it to Elastic Beanstalk. It's painless to iterate on our product in this aspect.
- Easy to scale. It takes only a short amount of time to do any upgrades to a server. The longest part is to back everything up, but it has only been a safety feature and never actually needed.
- Easy to monitor. We are able to track performance with a simple dashboard and message/email alerts if an alarm is ever triggered.
- How to more easily integrate with other other AWS services. There are plenty out there, but it's not quite as seamless as I feel like it should be to mix and match products.
- Make backing up easier when scaling the server. It took quite a bit of time to make sure we had everything set up in case something went wrong.
- When you are first starting to use AWS, the dashboard can be very intimidating. There are countless products all with names that aren't very indicative of what they actually do.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Scorecard Summary
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About AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the platform-as-a-service offering provided by Amazon and designed to leverage AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is designed for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.
Developers can simply upload their code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, and auto-scaling to application health monitoring. At the same time, users retain full control over the AWS resources powering their application and can access the underlying resources at any time.
There is no additional charge for Elastic Beanstalk - pay only for the AWS resources needed to store and run applications.
Categories: Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
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- Has featureFree or Freemium Version Available?Yes
- Does not have featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?No
- Entry-level set up fee?No
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Technical Details
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