AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Concept

With AWS Elastic Beanstalk you only provide the code; AWS sets up everything else — servers, load balancer and auto scaling. Here your app is called an Application, and the group of resources it runs on is called an Environment. Platforms such as Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go and Docker run on it. Underneath, it actually uses regular AWS services such as EC2, Elastic Load Balancing and EC2 Auto Scaling. So when you need to, you still have control over those resources.

Simple example

You want to open a restaurant, but a company builds the kitchen, installs the stoves and hires the staff for you. You only provide the recipes (the code).

Why it’s needed

Developers can focus on building the app instead of spending time on infrastructure.

Where it’s used

Launching a web application or API quickly, when the team doesn’t have much infrastructure experience.

Azure equivalent

Azure App Service

Remember

Beanstalk = give the code, AWS handles the rest. Underneath, it’s really EC2, a Load Balancer and Auto Scaling — you can see and change them if you want.

Related

Amazon EC2 · AWS App Runner · Amazon Lightsail

Learn more

For details and the latest information, see the official documentation:

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk — AWS official documentation ↗