AWS Elastic Beanstalk
| Developer(s) | Amazon Web Services |
|---|---|
| Initial release | January 19, 2011 [1] |
| Type | Web development |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | aws |
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an orchestration service offered from Amazon Web Services for deploying infrastructure which orchestrates various AWS services, including EC2, S3, Simple Notification Service (SNS), CloudWatch, autoscaling, and Elastic Load Balancers.[2] Elastic Beanstalk provides an additional layer of abstraction over the bare server and OS; users instead see a pre-built combination of OS and platform, such as "64bit Amazon Linux 2014.03 v1.1.0 running Ruby 2.0 (Puma)" or "64bit Debian jessie v2.0.7 running Python 3.4 (Preconfigured - Docker)".[3] Deployment requires a number of components to be defined: an 'application' as a logical container for the project, a 'version' which is a deployable build of the application executable, a 'configuration template' that contains configuration information for both the Beanstalk environment and for the product. Finally an 'environment' combines a 'version' with a 'configuration' and deploys them.[3] Executables themselves are uploaded as archive files to S3 beforehand and the 'version' is just a pointer to this.[3]
Supported applications and software stacks include:
- Ruby, PHP and Python applications on Apache HTTP Server [4]
- .NET Framework applications on IIS 7.5 [4]
- Java applications on Apache Tomcat [4]
- Node.js applications [5]
- Docker containers [6]
Supported deployment methods include:
- Zip files
- Java Web Application Archive (
.WARfile) - Docker containers [6]
- Git
Alternatives
- AWS CloudFormation provides a declarative template-based Infrastructure as Code model for configuring AWS.[7]
- AWS OpsWorks provides configuration of EC2 services using Chef.
- AWS CodeDeploy provides automated code deployment to EC2 instances.
Competitors
- Microsoft Azure Web Sites
- Cloud Foundry
- Bluemix
- AppScale
- Google App Engine
- Heroku
- Engine Yard
- OpenShift
- Jelastic
References
- ^ "Release: AWS Elastic Beanstalk". Retrieved 2013-05-06.
- ^ "What Is AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Why Do I Need It?". Retrieved 2013-05-27.
- ^ a b c Wittig, Andreas; Wittig, Michael (2016). Amazon Web Services in Action. Manning Press. p. 132-133. ISBN 978-1-61729-288-0.
- ^ a b c "AWS Elastic Beanstalk FAQ". Retrieved 2013-05-06.
- ^ "Announcing AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Node.js". Retrieved 2013-03-12.
- ^ a b "AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds Docker support". Retrieved 2014-05-06.
- ^ AWS in Action & Wittig (2016), p. 112.
