AWS-Beanstalk

• It makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud.

• It supports Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go and Docker web applications.

• It is designed so that it can be extended to support multiple development stacks and programming languages in the future.

• It automates the details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto scaling & application deployment, creating an environment that runs a version of application.

• It uses proven AWS features and services, such as EC2, RDS, ELB, Auto Scaling, S3 & SNS to create an environment that runs application.

• It runs on the Amazon Linux AMI and the Windows Server 2012 R2 AMI.

• It stores application files & optionally, server log files in S3.

• It can automatically provision an Amazon RDS DB instance.

• By default, users application is available publicly at myapp.elasticbeanstalk.com for anyone to access.

• IAM users with the appropriate permissions can now interact with AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

• Users can allow or deny permissions to specific AWS Elastic Beanstalk resources, such as applications, application versions & environments.

• An IAM user can use their access key and secret key to perform operations using the Elastic Beanstalk API.

• It can automatically perform platform updates for new patch and minor platform versions.

• It will not automatically perform major platform version updates (Like Java 7 Tomcat 7 to Java 8 Tomcat 8) because they include backwards incompatible changes and require additional testing.

• There is no additional charge for AWS Elastic Beanstalk– user pay only for the AWS resources actually used to store and run their application.

• It provides a unified user interface to monitor and manage the health of applications.

• It collects 40+ key metrics and attributes to determine the health of application.

• It is integrated with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray.

• It meets the criteria for ISO, PCI, SOC 1, SOC 2 & SOC 3 compliance along with the criteria for HIPAA eligibility.

• AWS resources launched by Elastic Beanstalk are fully accessible.

• An Elastic Beanstalk application is a logical collection of Elastic Beanstalk components, including environments, versions & environment configurations.

• An environment tier whose web application processes web requests is known as a web server tier.

• An environment tier whose web application runs background jobs is known as a worker tier.

• CloudFront can be used to distribute the content in S3, after an Elastic Beanstalk is created and deployed.

• It creates an S3 bucket named elasticbeanstalk-region-account-id for each region in which environments is created.