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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 Better™
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

8.9
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 Issue recovery highest, with a score of 9.5.

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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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
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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
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
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.

More like FANTASTIC Beanstalk!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 29, 2018
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is very well suited to scenarios where an application uses a distributed service architecture that relies on multiple server instances and where reliability, scalability, and ease of maintenance are critical points. It excels in simplifying the deployment and staging process; and given the depth of documentation and good resources around the product, is a quick solution to the hard problem. In situations where large monolithic applications need to be hosted, there are more suitable platforms that provide virtual machines.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Scales as advertised

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 21, 2018
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 1-10 employees
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
  • Scales well
  • Easy to spin up
  • CLI tools are great
Cons
  • 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
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.

Application deployment and scaling made easy for AWS

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 29, 2018
RR
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.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes deployment and scaling easy

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 15, 2018
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Services Company, 1-10 employees
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
  • Auto-scaling
  • Load-balancing
  • Provisioning
Cons
  • 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.
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.
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