What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that simplifies deploying and managing web applications and services. It handles the infrastructure provisioning, load balancing, auto scaling, and application health monitoring, allowing developers to focus on their code.

Why do we need AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is needed to simplify the deployment and management of web applications and services on the AWS Cloud. It automates the infrastructure provisioning, capacity scaling, load balancing, and application health monitoring, allowing developers to focus primarily on writing code rather than managing the underlying infrastructure.

Advantages of AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk offers several advantages for deploying and managing applications in the cloud: Simplified Deployment and Management: It automates the provisioning of resources like EC2 instances, load balancers, and auto-scaling groups, and handles the deployment process, reducing the operational overhead for developers.

Rapid Deployment: Applications can be deployed quickly by simply uploading the code, eliminating the need for manual infrastructure setup and configuration.

Automatic Scaling: Elastic Beanstalk automatically scales your application up or down based on demand, ensuring optimal performance during traffic fluctuations and cost efficiency during periods of low usage.

Support for Multiple Platforms and Languages: It supports a wide range of programming languages and platforms, including Java, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, .NET, PHP, and Docker.

Cost-Effectiveness: While you pay for the underlying AWS resources, Elastic Beanstalk itself does not incur extra charges. Its automation features and auto-scaling capabilities can also lead to cost savings.

Built-in Monitoring and Health Checks: It provides integrated monitoring and health checks, allowing you to easily track the performance and status of your application.

Flexibility and Control: Despite its automation, Elastic Beanstalk offers flexibility, allowing you to customize configurations, choose instance types, and fine-tune various settings to suit your application's specific needs.

Focus on Development: By handling infrastructure management, Elastic Beanstalk allows developers to concentrate on writing code and building application features rather than managing servers and environments.

Components of AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Application Version: Represents a specific iteration or release of an application's codebase.
Environment Tier: Defines the infrastructure resources allocated for an environment (e.g., web server environment, worker environment).
Environment: Represents a collection of AWS resources running an application version.
Configuration Template: Defines the settings for an environment, including instance types, scaling options, and more.

Elastic Beanstalk Environment

There are two types of environments: web server and worker.

Web server environments are front-end facing, accessed directly by clients using a URL.
Worker environments support backend applications or micro apps.

How Elastic Beanstalk Works

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Deploy the 2048-game using the AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Day 47 : AWS Elastic Beanstalk