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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, 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

Fantastic Tool by AWS

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 9, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is being used in specific departments of my organization. The major business problem that it solves is that there is no interaction required with Amazon ...
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Verified user
Employee
AWS Elastic Beanstalk2 years 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

My amazing experience with AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 12, 2020
IncentivizedVetted Review
We have been using AWS Elastic Bean stalk for around 3 years and it is one of the best services provided by AWS for developers who don't want get into managing lower level con...
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Verified user
Consultant
AWS Elastic Beanstalk10 years of experience

Climbing the Beanstalk: Best way to manage applications in the AWS giant's house

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 28, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is being used across my organization for the deployment of applications running on NodeJS, Python, and Java stacks. IT provides an easy-to-use deployment...
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Ramindu Deshapriya
Team Lead - Information Technology
Lead Consultant - Technology
Virtusa
AWS Elastic Beanstalk4 years of experience

Good tool for deployments

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 20, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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, .NE...
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Verified user
Team Lead
AWS Elastic Beanstalk2 years of experience

The perfect PaaS tool if you are already using AWS

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 3, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 Beanstal...
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Verified user
Engineer
AWS Elastic Beanstalk1 year of experience

Serverless app autoscaling system for stateless applications!

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 29, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 th...
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Verified user
Engineer
AWS Elastic Beanstalk2 years of experience

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the bee's knees!

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 23, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use it for many of our clients. AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides a simple way to deploy, maintain and analyze our APIs.
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Verified user
Engineer
AWS Elastic Beanstalk4 years of experience

Ideal for getting started

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 20, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 minima...
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Philip Cottray
Professional - Finance and Accounting
Public & Private Cloud Senior Business Technology Engineer
Creditsafe
AWS Elastic Beanstalk3 years of experience

AWS Elastic Beanstalk, an easy way to move scale workloads

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 20, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 s...
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Verified user
Manager
AWS Elastic Beanstalk5 years of experience

Amazon - never ceases to Amaze us!

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 14, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 serv...
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Parikshith Malalur Jagadeesh
Engineer - Engineering
Student
Sjsu
AWS Elastic Beanstalk2 years of experience

Elastic Beanstalk Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 14, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 an...
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Brad Ranks
Director - Information Technology
Director of Technology
MeMD, Inc
AWS Elastic Beanstalk3 years of experience
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Users pay for AWS resources (e.g. EC2, S3 buckets, etc.) used to store and run the application.

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  • No setup fee

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Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $35 per month
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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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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 highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of AWS Elastic Beanstalk are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk Gets Code into the Cloud with Minimal Difficulty

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
April 29, 2021
MJ
Michael Jenkins
Senior Systems Reliability Engineer
The Walt Disney Company (Entertainment, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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 too much about the underlying architecture and hardware. AWS Elastic Beanstalk lets them go from a concept to deployed code in a very short time. The tool is easily accessible from the console, AWS CLI, and its own dedicated CLI with the latter two being suitable for use in CI/CD pipelines. The main business problem addressed by AWS Elastic Beanstalk is allowing developers to quickly get their ideas online without worrying too much about deploying or managing the resources in the background.
Pros and Cons
  • Getting a project set up using the console or CLI is easy compared to other [computing] platforms.
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports a variety of programming languages so teams can experiment with different frameworks but still use the same compute platform for rapid prototyping.
  • Common application architectures can be referenced as patterns during project [setup].
  • Multiple environments can be deployed for an application giving more flexibility for experimentation.
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is well suited for [the] rapid development of applications that use standard compute platforms based on popular programming languages. So getting a Go, Python, Ruby, or Node.js app going in AWS Elastic Beanstalk will be easy. For non-standard applications, containers provide another option for using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. In either case, AWS Elastic Beanstalk is well suited for applications that are [self-contained]. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is also good for development or test environments that need a built-in deployment method.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is less appropriate for complex applications that rely on multiple AWS services. While deploying and running the base code might be easy to get going, it may be difficult to apply permissions and integrations with the other services.

My amazing experience with AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 12, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Reseller
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have been using AWS Elastic Bean stalk for around 3 years and it is one of the best services provided by AWS for developers who don't want get into managing lower level configurations like Load Balancing, auto scaling group, instance type and instance placement groups. We just need to zip their code files and select the environment for the application and that's pretty much it, we can also enable versioning for our deployments and it supports various environment like DEV, PROD etc. And the most beautiful thing about AWS Elastic Beanstalk is that you just need to choose setup types (i.e High Availability, single instance (for dev environment) and custom configuration as well) and it also supports AWS RDS, you just need to configure the connection strings of RDS into your code that's it. It has reduced work of cloud infrastructure by 40-45%.
Pros and Cons
  • Comes with preconfiguration of all infrastructure service with EC2 instance.
  • Developer with basic knowledge of cloud can also deploy applications.
  • It comes with the optimum plan for various scenarios like high availability, consistency.
  • It has almost all environments available for services.
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is recommended for applications which do not require complex configurations and just wanted to go live quickly. It's not recommended for complex configuration and big application deployments.

The perfect PaaS tool if you are already using AWS

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 03, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are developers who just want to write code and do not want to implement all the infrastructure to make your apps up and run, you should think about AWS Elastic Beanstalk. It is a very powerful platform as a service product owned by AWS that can help you host your codes. You do not have to worry about the maintenance of infrastructure.

Serverless app autoscaling system for stateless applications!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
August 29, 2019
Verified User
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 and Cons
  • Deployment automation.
  • Error handling.
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.

Elastic Beanstalk is perfect for maintaining your application

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 12, 2019
Verified User
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 and Cons
  • 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.
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.

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Review!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
August 10, 2019
JD
Joshua Dickson
Director of Engineering
NorthOut (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 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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Elastic Beanstalk is a great fit for a product that's already open to using Amazon Web Services, but has a team that does not want to work with environment setup. Furthermore, it's really only a fit for situations where the configuration needed from the team fits within a stack that Elastic Beanstalk offers. Even if you're interested in using one of the stacks they do support, you have more ability to modify configurations if you're handling all the setup and configuration on your own.

I am happy with my beans!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
August 10, 2019
RC
Rahul Chaudhary
Software Engineer
Capital One (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
- It works perfectly with other AWS resources like CodeCommit, CodePipeline. If you are working in an AWS environment, this is a MUST.
- Once you understand how it works, you can use it to easily scale and manage your application.
- It certainly is better than its competitors.

- More AWS resources to manage. Great! Though AWS is easy, with so many options, it is getting tiring to learn more new AWS stuff. So be careful, EBS isn't hard, but isn't easy either.
- If you have a single server, you don't need it.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Scales as advertised

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 21, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Scales well
  • Easy to spin up
  • CLI tools are great
Likelihood to Recommend
The CLI made getting started incredibly easy. Tutorials made it fairly simple to get up and running without too much fuss. That said, it can be a very complicated solution if all you need is a basic hosting platform. However, it can scale out rapidly and does this amazingly well.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes deployment and scaling easy

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 15, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Auto-scaling
  • Load-balancing
  • Provisioning
Likelihood to Recommend
Elastic Beanstalk is perfect for getting an application deployed with little effort. It is less suitable for applications that do not require load balancing or auto-scaling. An AWS EC2 or Lightsail instance would be more appropriate for such needs.

the.worst.service.ever

Rating: 2 out of 10
February 06, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We started using this service because we needed high reliability and good support. So we began hosting our app with it immediately
Pros and Cons
  • Readily available environments
Likelihood to Recommend
We were under the impression that this was a reliable service, but our experience is exactly the opposite of that.
Bottom line, if you want support that gets back with you in less than 24 hours, do not use these people.

Amazon's Giant Beanstalk

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
January 30, 2018
BA
Bill Artinger
Support Lead
IT Management (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Cost effective
  • Scalable and reliable
  • LOADS of features
Likelihood to Recommend
Scenario where Beanstalk would be well suited is when a developer wants to push multiple versions or updates to an application - with its lightening fast configuration and deployment options. There is also a host of automation tools in place to assist. AWS Beanstalk would be less useful (or where it falls short) is if you make frequent changes and have stored old versions - there's a limit for that, that some may not know about until they hit it.

Scalable EBS

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 24, 2018
JL
Jordan Leano
IT Manager
Modus Operandi (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Scalability: The ability to autoscale based on traffic helps with availability and overall cost.
  • Atlassian Bamboo third-party integration: EBS integrates well with the Atlassian tools. Once our DevOps team sets up the EBS environments and the Bamboo CI, our developers and QA team will be see the changes without the need to log into AWS and deploy the updates manually.
Likelihood to Recommend
Suited: Sites using a server side scripting engine like PHP and will experience bandwidth spikes due to press releases or campaigns. The scalability will help in keeping the overall monthly costs down.

Not Suited: Sites that do not need a server side scripting engine. It would be less expensive and more efficient to use AWS Cloudfront.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 19, 2016
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is definitely the best when trying to build large applications. It has the flexibility to start out small and reduce costs, but then it can easily be scaled and parsed out so that it can handle countless users. I believe that Netflix even recently started using AWS as it's solution. The times when it is less appropriate is if you are wanting to create a very simple website, are not trying to grow your website, or are very inexperienced with software development. You don't need a power drill when a hammer will do.
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