Elastic Beanstalk¶

TLDR¶

A quick way of hosting an application without having to manage infrastructure. But you can modify your infrastructure post launch. It offers more control than AppRunner.

Features - Beanstalk is free but you pay for the underlying instances (EC2,ASG,ELB,RDS) - full control over the configuration - supports docker - app logs are saved to S3 - server logs can be enabled and saved to s3 or CloudWatch

Components¶

• App: collection of Elastic beanstalk components (envs, config, versions)
• App Version: an iteration of your app code
• Environment:
  • collection of AWS resources running an app
  • Tiers: web server env tier & worker env tier
  • can create multiple envs (dev, test, prod)

Deployment Modes¶

• Single Instance : great for testing or dev
• High Availability with Load balancer: Great for prod