Deploying Applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

In this lecture, we explored how to quickly deploy applications using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Beanstalk simplifies the deployment of web applications by automatically handling infrastructure setup, scaling, and monitoring.

1️⃣ Creating an Elastic Beanstalk Application

Step 1: Choose the Environment Type

When creating an application in Beanstalk, you can choose between:

✅ Web Server Environment – Used for deploying websites and web applications.

✅ Worker Environment – Used for processing background tasks from an SQS queue.

For this lecture, we chose a Web Server Environment to deploy a website.

Step 2: Define Application & Environment

• Application Name: MyApplication
• Environment Name: MyApplication-dev (represents a development environment)
• Domain Name: Automatically generated by Beanstalk

Step 3: Choose a Platform & Application Code

• Platform: Node.js (managed by AWS Beanstalk)
• Application Code: Sample application (default Beanstalk example)

2️⃣ Configuring the Beanstalk Deployment

Instance Type & Scaling Configuration

Elastic Beanstalk offers different configuration presets: