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).
AWS Elastic Beanstalk, the backbone of cloud applications & deployment
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Good tool for deployments
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Serverless app autoscaling system for stateless applications!
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Popular Features
- Scalability (28)9.999%
- Platform management overhead (27)9.797%
- Development environment replication (28)9.595%
- Platform access control (27)9.393%
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Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
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- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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
- 10Ease of building user interfaces(18) Ratings
Ability to build flexible user interfaces using drag-and-drop tools
- 9.9Scalability(28) Ratings
Ease of scaling up or down to meet demand
- 9.7Platform management overhead(27) Ratings
Resources required to keep platform up and running
- 9.6Workflow engine capability(22) Ratings
Process automation using rule-based engine
- 9.3Platform access control(27) Ratings
Rules controlling what data different user categories can access
- 9.8Services-enabled integration(27) Ratings
Ability to integrate with cloud applications and data via APIs and pre-built connectors
- 9.5Development environment creation(27) Ratings
Ease of creating new development environments
- 9.5Development environment replication(28) Ratings
Ease of replicating new development environments
- 9.2Issue monitoring and notification(27) Ratings
Integrated monitoring and notification of issues and problems
- 9.5Issue recovery(25) Ratings
Ease of recovery from problem state
- 9.4Upgrades and platform fixes(26) Ratings
Ease of deployment of major upgrades or problem fixes
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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.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Competitors
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-9 of 9)- Autoscaling options.
- Containerization tool.
- Deployment management functions.
- Workload management capability.
- On multiple deployment operations managed can be tricky some time.
- Big Cloud data protection.
- Setting Cloud tools when just getting started with the platform.
- 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.
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
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- 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.
I am happy with my beans!
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.
- 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
- 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
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Review
- 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.
Scalable 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.
Not Suited: Sites that do not need a server side scripting engine. It would be less expensive and more efficient to use AWS Cloudfront.