AWS Elastic Beanstalk, the backbone of cloud applications & deployment
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
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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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2020
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View all 11 features- Scalability (27)9.494%
- Platform management overhead (26)9.090%
- Development environment replication (27)8.181%
- Platform access control (26)7.575%
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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 9.9.
The most common users of AWS Elastic Beanstalk are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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There are many services like AWS Elastic beanstalk, but there are none with the maturity in the platform or the cost-effectiveness of AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Also, AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the oldest among them, so there are more people with AWS experience than the other platforms. The only thing is their documentation and UX are a bit old, which doesn't stop it from performing greatly, but yes, if you are looking for better UX, then you can check out other options.
I have used App Engine on Google Cloud Platform and App Service on Microsoft Azure. Both offer similar capabilities to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. App Engine has the nice ability to scale to 0 instances when the application has not been in use for some time. This allows for substantial cost savings for dev, test, and even infrequently used production environments compared to AWS Elastic Beanstalk where environments are expected to run 24x7 regardless of load[,] and stopping or pausing an environment can prove to be difficult. I've only been using App Service for a short period of time as of this writing and can't offer a deep comparison [...] to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. However, I do appreciate AWS Elastic Beanstalk's ease of use in most cases compared to my App Service experience so far.
As it supports end to end flow of application deployment and not a part of any individual process like other AWS products, AWS Elastic Beanstalk can be a game changer in cloud industry.
The AWS platform provides a great deal of configurability that is abstracted and provided very well through AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This is the main reason for choosing Elastic Beanstalk over competing services. Another reason for selecting AWS Beanstalk was vendor compatibility, and the fact that our current infrastructure is running mostly on AWS services.
September 03, 2019
The perfect PaaS tool if you are already using AWS
I selected AWS Elastic Beanstalk mainly because we have been using AWS services for our company. Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk is relatively easier than starting to use a completely new cloud platform. But we are also reviewing Google App Engine, and found out Elastic Beanstalk has more services to integrate with other services on AWS.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is equivalent to Google App Engine in terms of product. I selected AWS Elastic Beanstalk because it was within the stack we were using, and it made sense for us given the other architecture.
August 23, 2019
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the bee's knees!
I use both EB and Lambda for different use cases. I normally use AWS Lambda for my smaller software needs.
August 20, 2019
Ideal for getting started
- Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon CloudSearch, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Route 53, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Amazon Simple Email Service
We now default to Amazon ECS, due to flexibility this gives us with how workloads scale, and more network flexibility as many of our workloads are internal / external facing. We selected Elastic Beanstalk at beginning of our containerization phase, which suited our needs whereby we wanted an 'out of the box' type experience from a CloudOps perspective.
August 20, 2019
AWS Elastic Beanstalk, an easy way to move scale workloads
Azure currently doesn't have a solution that's similar to this but you can do a lot of the features with several of the components that Microsoft Azure offers. AWS Elastic Beanstalk exists in that niche market where if you have an existing solution, this is a great way to move & scale your solution.
August 14, 2019
Amazon - never ceases to Amaze us!
Heroku is another similar product which we had tried out to deploy one of the NodeJs project and it has lot of developer friendly features as well. Though Heroku is more expensive than Beanstalk is what I found. Heroku also has some restrictions which can affect the architecture design , needs adherence to 12 factor methodology. These made us choose Beanstalk as an alternative to Heroku.
August 14, 2019
Elastic Beanstalk Review
We ended up with AWS Lambda to take workload off the developers and develop in tandem, then later integrate. We use both though.
August 10, 2019
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Review!
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a great option for an organization that's already invested in the AWS ecosystem. The greater the number of complementary features needed by the application (e.g. integrating with Amazon's Elastic Load Balancer, databases, etc), the greater the reward from leveraging Elastic Beanstalk. In our experience, Elastic Beanstalk is cheaper than other services like Heroku. It's on-par with offerings from Azure and Google Cloud; the use case there is driven by buy-in around AWS.
August 10, 2019
I am happy with my beans!
Honestly, I haven't tried any other alternative products. As already mentioned, I am already heavily invested in AWS, so EBS was a natural choice for me. In other reviews, I have found, AWS is better than its competitors. There are more flavors, and options in AWS, better security, better models. Why go someplace else, when what you have serves you better.
December 29, 2018
Application deployment and scaling made easy for AWS
- Heroku, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Google Kubernetes Engine
We were already hosting on AWS so it just made sense to keep our infrastructure where we have it. And it all works pretty nicely.
June 21, 2018
AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Scales as advertised
AWS is much more focused on scalability, but Heroku was much easier to get things up and running as a beginner. For simple hosting, I would stick to something like Heroku or Netlify. That said, Elastic Beanstalk is meant for more performant functions requiring large scaling and I would definitely consider it for this type of task.
May 29, 2018
More like FANTASTIC Beanstalk!
We also use Heroku and it is a great platform for smaller projects and light Node.js services, but we have found that in terms of cost, the Elastic Beanstalk option is more affordable for the projects that we undertake. The fact that it sits inside of the greater AWS Cloud offering also compels us to use it, since integration is simpler.
We have also evaluated Microsoft Azure and gave up trying to get an extremely basic implementation up and running after a few days of struggling with its mediocre user interface and constant issues with documentation being outdated. The authentication model is also badly broken and trying to manage resources is a pain. One cannot compare Azure with anything that Amazon has created in the cloud space since Azure really isn't a mature platform and we are always left wanting when we have to interface with it.
We have also evaluated Microsoft Azure and gave up trying to get an extremely basic implementation up and running after a few days of struggling with its mediocre user interface and constant issues with documentation being outdated. The authentication model is also badly broken and trying to manage resources is a pain. One cannot compare Azure with anything that Amazon has created in the cloud space since Azure really isn't a mature platform and we are always left wanting when we have to interface with it.
February 15, 2018
AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes deployment and scaling easy
- Lightsail
I enjoyed that Lightsail was so simple to provision and access via the in-browser SSH terminal, but ultimately Elastic Beanstalk is a more robust offering that interfaces seamlessly with more of AWS's other services. Elastic Beanstalk is also better equipped to automate management tasks, such as monitoring, application version deployment, and log file access.
January 24, 2018
Scalable EBS
I selected these solutions because they are the closest to being able to set up separate server or VM instances. As far as performance and scalability, Heroku does offer an autoscale option, but the base cost to have the autoscale in place, sets Heroku behind EBS. Digital Ocean and Rackspace are reliable and are good solutions, but without an on-demand autoscale, the cost would be too much.
We didn't use Lambda much till now. We, however, found better control of resources in EBS.
April 19, 2016
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
The other main competitor that I have used would probably be Heroku. While Heroku is incredibly simple and easy to get a sample web app online, its dashboard and product connectivity didn't feel quite as seamless as AWS Elastic Beanstalk. AWS Elastic Beanstalk has a higher up front cost to learn and deploy, but its ability to scale and grow and be transparent afterwards is really its selling point. Heroku felt expensive, and I never really knew what I was getting from it.