Application Categories

• Web Applications: Applications which serve Web Pages and interact over http(s)
• Web API: Application which serves REST API and interacts over http(s)
• Batch: Background jobs which run at a scheduled time
• Desktop Applications: Applications which require installation on Client.

Elastic Beanstalk

• PAAS Platform of AWS, which allows users to create Web Applications or Batch Job (Worker)

Terms

• Platform: Techonology used to Develop Application. AWS supports the following Technology Platforms
  • Java
  • .net
  • .net core
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Php
  • Nodejs
  • Go
  • Docker
  • Custom Platforms can be created using Packer.
• Application Version: Version of the application running
• Environment:

Deploy Application using Elastic Beanstalk

• Navigate to Compute => Elastic Beanstalk

• Click on Get Started

• Enter your application details

• Click on Create Application

• Click on the Generated URL and you should see the sample app running

• Now navigate to Services => EC2 and you should see an EC2 instance running with ENV name.

• Elastic Beanstalk is free and billing is applicable to what Beanstalk creates (Ec2, S3, EBS, EIP)

• Note: Terminate Environments and Delete Applications