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
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Navigate to Compute => Elastic Beanstalk
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Click on Get Started
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Enter your application details
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Click on Create Application
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Click on the Generated URL and you should see the sample app running
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Now navigate to Services => EC2 and you should see an EC2 instance running with ENV name.
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Elastic Beanstalk is free and billing is applicable to what Beanstalk creates (Ec2, S3, EBS, EIP)
- Note: Terminate Environments and Delete Applications
