AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an

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service offered by

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for deploying applications which orchestrates various AWS services, including EC2, S3, Simple Notification Service (SNS), CloudWatch,

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, and Elastic Load Balancers. 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

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2.0 (Puma)" or "64bit

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jessie v2.0.7 running

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3.4 (Preconfigured - Docker)". 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. Executables themselves are uploaded as archive files to S3 beforehand and the '' 'version' '' is just a pointer to this.

Name

The name "Elastic beanstalk" is a reference to the beanstalk that grew all the way up to the clouds in the fairy tale

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Applications and software stacks

Supported applications and software stacks include: *

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for

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applications *

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for

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applications * Apache HTTP Server for

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or Apache HTTP Server for

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applications *

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or Puma for

applications *

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7.5, 8.0, and 8.5 for .NET applications *

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* Docker * Go

Alternative AWS technologies

* AWS CloudFormation provides a declarative template-based

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model for configuring AWS. * AWS OpsWorks provides configuration of EC2 services using

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References

External links

* {{Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Cloud platforms Web services Computer-related introductions in 2011