Item: AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Rating: 8
Author: Bill Artinger

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

AWS as a whole can be intimidating, or hard to learn
Additional complexities are added at times due to nature of AWS/Cloud

Return on Investment

Easy to use cost estimators and hard-stop tools make it easy to manage the budget and keep your intended ROI in sight.
AWS easy to understand billing gives you further insight into your application space's overall cost and productivity.

Other Software Used

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), ConnectWise Control (formerly ScreenConnect), Symantec Endpoint Protection

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.

Amazon's Giant Beanstalk

Overall Satisfaction with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Return on Investment

Other Software Used

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Feature Ratings