The perfect PaaS tool if you are already using AWS
September 03, 2019
The perfect PaaS tool if you are already using AWS
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is used by our company in certain departments for experimental purpose. We are still trying to evaluate its performance. The problem AWS Elastic Beanstalk is solving for us now is the PaaS. We need a platform that can provide the capacity of spinning up a website without managing any of the infrastructures like servers or databases.
- It is fully automatic. You just upload your codes and EB will take care of the rest.
- It's well integrated with other AWS services like build pipeline.
- Good technical support from the documentation.
- Troubleshooting can be a pain. You cannot see where it was wrong exactly when you encounter errors.
- It can be touchy sometimes. You need to be very careful about what you have done and keep records on it.
- Mainly the two above.
- It saves our company's budget by cutting down the cost of maintaining infrastructure cost.
- It expedites our developing cycle.
- We do not have to worry about scalability.
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.