AWS Elastic Beanstalk, an easy way to move scale workloads
August 20, 2019

AWS Elastic Beanstalk, an easy way to move scale workloads

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

We are currently using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to help us augment workloads when we have promotions or campaigns that require a variable amount of computing. This allows us to scale as needed with little or no interaction as we focus on the campaign orchestration to maximize our business processes.
  • Affordable way to scale computing with little involvement
  • Easy set up and ramp up
  • Good toolbox for several platforms with flexibility
  • Spinning up additional nodes can sometimes be slow based on your implementation
  • Testing the scaling can be tricky
  • Implementation of your code still needs to be solid or else you'll have some issues
  • Allows us to scale existing solutions fairly quickly, but still requires some review before we can execute.
  • Fairly straight forward and low maintenance once you get it up and running.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is great for existing workloads but if you are starting from scratch, there are other options that will allow you to build a more intricate solution. If you have to work through moving an existing solution to a scalable solution then this us a no brainer as it's so streamlined.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk support is in line with the support provided by AWS. It can be challenging if you don't have the expertise to articulate your problem, but they are fairly helpful in getting to a resolution. If you have an enterprise agreement with them it helps quite a bit to escalate and get additional help.
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.
I would recommend AWS Elastic Beanstalk if you have a workload that's already built and you need to add scalability. It doesn't take too many changes for your workload to be able to be deployed onto Elastic Beanstalk. If you are building out a new platform, I'd recommend looking into a native scaled solution.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Feature Ratings

Ease of building user interfaces
8
Scalability
7
Platform management overhead
8
Workflow engine capability
7
Platform access control
7
Services-enabled integration
7
Development environment creation
7
Development environment replication
6
Issue monitoring and notification
6
Issue recovery
6
Upgrades and platform fixes
6