As a developer, the most important job is to build an amazing web or mobile application and deploy it. But the developers always end up as system administrators and instead of writing codes, they may usually get stuck in the managerial issues of the application. AWS solves these issues by offering Elastic Beanstalk service on its platform.

This guide will explain the AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

What is Amazon Elastic Beanstalk?

Elastic Beanstalk is Amazon’s cloud service that can be utilized to deploy a web or mobile application and it is an easy-to-use service. It is used to manage, scale, and deploy web applications and services using managed containers that support different environments. It allows the developers to focus on writing code in languages like Python, Ruby, PHP, etc., to deploy on familiar servers:

Features of Elastic Beanstalk

Some of the important features of AWS Elastic Beanstalk are explained below:

• Integration With AWS Services: Elastic Beanstalk integrates well with other AWS services like S3, EC2, SNS, Elastic Load Balancing, and Autoscaling.
• Manages Application/Service Uploading: The user simply needs to select the environment and server to upload the code and the rest will be managed by Elastic Beanstalk. It manages Load balancing, Provisioning, Auto Scaling, Application Health Monitoring, etc.
• Easy to Use: It is an easy-to-use elastic beanstalk from the AWS Management Console, CLI, or the APIs:

How Does Elastic Beanstalk Work?

To use Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, visit its dashboard and click on the “Create Application” button:

Type the name of the application:

Select the platform from the drop-down menu:

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Create application” button to deploy a sample application:

It will take some time to create an environment:

Once the environment’s health is “OK”, click on the link of the environment to visit the deployed application:

The sample application has been deployed successfully:

This is all about Amazon Elastic Beanstalk.

Conclusion

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk is utilized to manage the application after its deployment on the server. It allows the developers to select the environment of their choice and deploy their code on the server. It is a very easy-to-use service as its dashboard offers everything to create on a single window. This guide has explained the Elastic Beanstalk and also demonstrated how to deploy a sample application using it.