AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Deploy and scale web apps on AWS

★ 4.0

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications. Upload your code and Beanstalk handles capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and health monitoring while you retain full control over AWS resources.

Recursos

✓ Automatic capacity provisioning

✓ Load balancing with ELB

✓ Auto-scaling based on metrics

✓ Application health monitoring

✓ Multiple platform support

✓ Managed platform updates

✓ Environment cloning

✓ Blue/green deployments

✓ Full access to underlying AWS resources

✓ Docker and multi-container support

Prós

+ Full access to underlying AWS resources
+ No additional cost beyond resources used
+ Flexible configuration options
+ Supports many platforms and languages
+ Easy migration path to raw AWS services

Contras

− AWS complexity underneath
− Learning curve for configuration (.ebextensions)
− Slower deployments than modern PaaS
− Less opinionated than alternatives