Item: AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Rating: 10
Author: Partha Roy

Overall Satisfaction with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

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.

Cons

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.)

Return on Investment

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.

Alternatives Considered

Google App Engine, Heroku Platform, Azure App Service and Alibaba Cloud Web Hosting

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.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Google Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda, Alibaba Cloud CDN

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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