Mastering Flask Web Development - Second Edition

Using Flask on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk is a platform for web applications that offers many powerful features for developers, so they don't have to worry about maintaining servers. For example, your Elastic Beanstalk application will automatically scale by utilizing more and more servers as the number of people using your app at once grows. For Python apps, Elastic Beanstalk uses Apache, in combination with mod_wsgi, to connect to WSGI applications—if your deployment is simple with mid-to-low load, there is no extra configuration needed.

Before we begin, you will need an Amazon.com account to log in to the console. Next, you need to install awscli and configure it with your credentials—you must generate an AWS access key ...