Item: AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it in our company for project deployment and scaling tool. It provides us with many features and functionalities like load balancing, replica sets, horizontal and vertical scaling, handling the traffic on different servers and diverting the traffic to the most efficient node(s), so as to receive the best performance.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Load Balancing
Scaling horizontally and vertically
setting up nodes of servers and creating a mechanism to redirect traffic

Cons

When the logic gets complicated and there are multiple nodes, the traffic redirection loses efficiency. Sometimes makes the server slower that how it was with one single node
Doesn't support some very basic node setup architectures
Doesn't support collaborations with other very famous softwares

Return on Investment

Helps us scale the projects for our node architecture pretty well, we have minimal complaints from software users
Good user interface, easy problem solving, leading to less downtime
Good logging system, leading to less downtime

Usability

The overall usability is good enough, as far as the scaling, interactive UI and logging system is concerned, could do a lot better when it comes to the efficiency, in case of complicated node logics and complicated node architectures. It can have better software compatibility and can try to support collaboration with more softwares.

Alternatives Considered

Google App Engine and DigitalOcean App Platform

In some of the other companies that I've worked in, I've had the opportunity to work with the above softwares where the structure and architecture of the services was much complicated but the above softwares were able to handle it with more ease and efficiency. The complex logic part is taken care of beautifully by Google App Engine.

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?

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

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of AWS Elastic Beanstalk go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy AWS Elastic Beanstalk again?

Other Software Used

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Studio 3T

Likelihood to Recommend

The reason for the rating 7 even though I gave a higher rating overall is because it seems to have many flaws, even when I personally consider using it because of the company I work in, the node architecture that was created in injunction with AWS Beanstalk works well so far and as the company doesn't plan to further scale yet which it hasn't since last 3-4 years, the software works fine. But if the we scale further, there might be a need to change a switch to another software altogether.

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AWS Elastic BeanStalk - Good enough