AWS Elastic Beanstalk, very reliable Cloud Containerization and Autoscaling Package.
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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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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.
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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 highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of AWS Elastic Beanstalk are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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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.
- 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.
- Users may find it confusing if they need to switch from the dedicated CLI for AWS Elastic Beanstalk and the AWS CLI.
- It would be useful to support paused or suspended environments for applications that don't need to be online 24x7. Dev and test environments would be benefit from this feature.
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%.
- 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.
- Not easy to do customization for some services.
- Not recommended for big environment back-end services.
- Customer support is okay!
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 model to run applications on pre-built application stacks on EC2 instances without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure and application stack. It provides an abstraction layer on top of a range of AWS services such as load balancers, security, and auto-scaling, allowing configuration of all these options from a single console. Through the use of Elastic Beanstalk, our organization has been able to deploy and manage applications on EC2 instances without the hassle of having to manage the EC2 instances themselves, leading to faster deployment times and smaller maintenance windows.
- Providing managed application environments
- In-built load balancing
- In-built auto-scaling
- In-built logs and log aggregation through CloudWatch
- Providing managed updates to applications stacks
- In-built selection of deployment methods (all-at-once, blue-green etc)
- Integration with CodePipeline
- Some configuration options can be too rigid, and you have to delete an environment to change some configuration options.
- When things go wrong, they fail badly, and you are left with no insight or feedback.
- Some of the built-in monitoring metrics are hard to understand and configure.
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 14, 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
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.
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.
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
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