Item: AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is being used by my organization as a serverless compute system where we can deploy code to run web applications without thinking about infrastructure thus drastically reducing the time to deployment/setup of my system. Elastic Beanstalk is being used primarily by our software development and devops teams to help streamline the deployment process.

Pros and Cons

Deployment automation.
Error handling.

Documentation.
User interface.

Return on Investment

Reduced time to deployment.
Higher costs to run the application due to AWS billing.
Better error handling and recovery for our application.

Usability

AWS Elastic Beanstalk works well, but is geared towards an engineers mindset. The ELB management console isn't the most user-friendly, nor is the documentation, so you need to have developers who know what is going on and systems architecture.

Support Rating

AWS Elastic Beanstalk support by amazon web services is pretty good. I can call someone with my business support plan and get help at any of their pop up AWS lofts. I think giving a 9/10 is fair.

Alternatives Considered

Google App Engine

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.

Other Software Used

Google App Engine, Google Analytics, Google Cloud CDN

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a great tool to run serverless code by simply deploying your app and letting Amazon Elastic Cloud scale each feature necessary to run a scalable application. It would be less appropriate when dealing with stateful apps, but rather works wonders for stateless applications. The documentation could be done better, but overall it is a great streamlining tool.

Serverless app autoscaling system for stateless applications!

Overall Satisfaction with AWS Elastic Beanstalk