AWS Elastic Beanstalk, the backbone of cloud applications & deployment
August 02, 2022

AWS Elastic Beanstalk, the backbone of cloud applications & deployment

Partha Roy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an all-rounder product that helps us quickly deploy our software on the cloud. It also allows us to scale up easily on demand.
  • It helps us to deploy several services of AWS in the cloud.
  • Out of the box security and privacy provided by AWS Elastic Beanstalk is unmatchable.
  • The user experience is super intuitive and helps a lot throughout the deployment process.
  • Reliability across different services is quite surprising.
  • It's very easy to get started with but very difficult to master, as the documentation is scattered across and the tutorials are dated. So one has to be well experienced in this in order to make the most out of the service.
  • Even though the user experience is good, it's backdated, it has an old UI system, which could be changed, and a modern, fresh look can be used.
  • While working with AWS Elastic Beanstalk, one has to be very attentive and scrutinise all the steps in order to miss out settings, which can lead to surprising billings (which is a very common phenomena.)
  • We have our website hosted using AWS elastic Beanstalk, and it makes our marketing very fast, as there's the feature of auto-deployment whenever there's any change. This ensures zero DevOps time indulged in any new update release.
  • Most of our product is hosted with it, and it has helped us to roll out new features with no time. Which directly affected our ROI positively.
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.

Do you think AWS Elastic Beanstalk delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with AWS Elastic Beanstalk's feature set?

Yes

Did AWS Elastic Beanstalk live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of AWS Elastic Beanstalk go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy AWS Elastic Beanstalk again?

Yes

I have been using AWS Elastic Beanstalk for more than 5 years, and it has made our life so easy and hassle-free. Here are some scenarios where it excels -
  • I have been using different AWS services like EC2, S3, Cloudfront, Serverless, etc. And Elastic Beanstalk makes our lives easier by tieing each service together and making the deployment a smooth process.
  • N number of integrations with different CI/CD pipelines make this most engineer's favourite service.
  • Scalability & Security comes with the service, which makes it the absolute perfect product for your business.

Personally, I haven't found any situations where it's not appropriate for the use cases it can be used. The pricing is also very cost-effective.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Feature Ratings

Ease of building user interfaces
10
Scalability
10
Platform management overhead
9
Workflow engine capability
8
Platform access control
8
Services-enabled integration
9
Development environment creation
9
Development environment replication
9
Issue monitoring and notification
8
Issue recovery
8
Upgrades and platform fixes
8