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Elastic Beanstalk
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Elastic Beanstalk

by Jurg van Vliet, Dara Dowd, Flavia Paganelli, Steven van Wel
July 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
84 pages
2h 1m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preface

Thank you for picking up a copy of this book. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk is one of Amazon AWS’s services. It offers a platform for easy deployment of web applications. The first version of Elastic Beanstalk handles Java applications running in a Tomcat container. Deploying an application has been made as easy as uploading your WAR to your Application Environment.

Elastic Beanstalk is difficult, and barely understood. But it has been a huge hit with the media following cloud trends. We have seen headlines shouting that Amazon AWS was “in the PaaS business,” taking on Heroku and Google App Engine. These comparisons are not so interesting, except that they show that expectations are high. There is the idea that the cloud will end all problems, including building and especially deploying applications to large-scale infrastructures.

There is a huge gap between developing web applications in Java and running them on AWS infrastructures that can handle huge traffic. This gap contains things like installing Linux, configuring Tomcat, etc. But it also includes many AWS services, like EC2, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, and S3. Elastic Beanstalk tries to hide these details, but it allows you to take over at any level, whenever you require. In a way, it tries to provide an “easy entrance” to AWS. So, the task at hand is to explain something that has been intentionally left out, because it is often a source of frustration.

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