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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Overview

What is 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).

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AWS Elastic BeanStalk - Good enough

Rating: 7 out of 10
January 13, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use it in our company for project deployment and scaling tool. It provides us with many features and functionalities like load balancing, replica sets, horizontal and verti...
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Verified user
Engineer
AWS Elastic Beanstalk7 years of experience

AWS Elastic Beanstalk, very reliable Cloud Containerization and Autoscaling Package.

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 27, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
The scaling capability and the effective container management through AWS Elastic Beanstalk is excellent and the deployment management is also impressive. Performance easy man...
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Rebecca Scott
Engineer - Information Technology
Cloud Engineer
ChipSoft
AWS Elastic Beanstalk2 years of experience

AWS Elastic Beanstalk, the backbone of cloud applications & deployment

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 2, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an all-rounder product that helps us quickly deploy our software on the cloud. It also allows us to scale up easily on demand.
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Partha Roy
Team Lead - Engineering
Lead Product Engineer
Fasal - Grow More, Grow Betterâ„¢
AWS Elastic Beanstalk5 years of experience

Elastic Beanstalk was perfect fit for our custom API

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 2, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use AWS Elastic Beanstalk to host a custom API validation service for our business. It interfaces with multiple vendor cloud systems to utilize their unique APIs to validat...
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William Wells
Vice-President - Information Technology
Vice President of IT
R&S Solutions LLC
AWS Elastic Beanstalk1 year of experience

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Gets Code into the Cloud with Minimal Difficulty

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 29, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
The team I support uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk for rapid software development with AWS resources. [It's] an easy on-ramp for getting software into the cloud without worrying to...
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Michael Jenkins
Engineer - Corporate
Senior Systems Reliability Engineer
The Walt Disney Company
AWS Elastic Beanstalk5 years of experience
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Pricing

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No Charge

$0

Cloud
Users pay for AWS resources (e.g. EC2, S3 buckets, etc.) used to store and run the application.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $35 per month
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Product Demos

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Tutorial | AWS Certification | AWS Tutorial | Edureka

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Features

Platform-as-a-Service

Platform as a Service is the set of tools and services designed to make coding and deploying applications much more efficient

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Avg 8.0
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Product Details

What is 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.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Competitors

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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 starts at $35.

Heroku Platform, Engine Yard, and Red Hat OpenShift are common alternatives for AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Reviewers rate Ease of building user interfaces and Scalability and Platform management overhead highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of AWS Elastic Beanstalk are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Serverless app autoscaling system for stateless applications!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
August 29, 2019
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • Deployment automation.
  • Error handling.
Cons
  • Documentation.
  • User interface.
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a great tool to run serverless code by simply deploying your app and letting Amazon Elastic Cloud scale each feature necessary to run a scalable application. It would be less appropriate when dealing with stateful apps, but rather works wonders for stateless applications. The documentation could be done better, but overall it is a great streamlining tool.

Application deployment and scaling made easy for AWS

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 29, 2018
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Richard Rout
Software Developer
Blink Lending (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • Easy to set up deployment of many technologies.
  • Handles everything from app to database.
  • Integrates into IDEs for easy deployment.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
[Well suited] for small teams that don't want to spend too much time doing their own dev ops or infrastructure setup.

Elastic Beanstalk is perfect for maintaining your application

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 12, 2019
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • It should accept deployment from S3 buckets.
  • You cannot store old deployment packages up to 500.
Likelihood to Recommend
Elastic Beanstalk is very suitable if you are also using other services from AWS. You can deploy your application in a very short time and configure it easily.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk, the backbone of cloud applications & deployment

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
August 02, 2022
PR
Partha Roy
Lead Product Engineer
Fasal - Grow More, Grow Betterâ„¢ (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an all-rounder product that helps us quickly deploy our software on the cloud. It also allows us to scale up easily on demand.
Pros
  • It helps us to deploy several services of AWS in the cloud.
  • Out of the box security and privacy provided by AWS Elastic Beanstalk is unmatchable.
  • The user experience is super intuitive and helps a lot throughout the deployment process.
  • Reliability across different services is quite surprising.
Cons
  • It's very easy to get started with but very difficult to master, as the documentation is scattered across and the tutorials are dated. So one has to be well experienced in this in order to make the most out of the service.
  • Even though the user experience is good, it's backdated, it has an old UI system, which could be changed, and a modern, fresh look can be used.
  • While working with AWS Elastic Beanstalk, one has to be very attentive and scrutinise all the steps in order to miss out settings, which can lead to surprising billings (which is a very common phenomena.)
Likelihood to Recommend
I have been using AWS Elastic Beanstalk for more than 5 years, and it has made our life so easy and hassle-free. Here are some scenarios where it excels -
  • I have been using different AWS services like EC2, S3, Cloudfront, Serverless, etc. And Elastic Beanstalk makes our lives easier by tieing each service together and making the deployment a smooth process.
  • N number of integrations with different CI/CD pipelines make this most engineer's favourite service.
  • Scalability & Security comes with the service, which makes it the absolute perfect product for your business.

Personally, I haven't found any situations where it's not appropriate for the use cases it can be used. The pricing is also very cost-effective.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk must be used to deploy and manage Customer applications

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 30, 2017
SS
Sandeep Singh
Consultant
HCL Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • load balancing,
  • monitoring
  • dynamic capacity provision
Cons
  • need to create some easy step to deploy the BS in production environment. where data and application are mission critcical
Likelihood to Recommend
Application health monitoring is well suited as I am very happy with its performance. I don't face a major challenge as of now; still struggling to learn a lot about the EBS feature.
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