Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Features

Wide Selection of Application Platforms

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk supports web applications written in many popular languages and frameworks. It requires no or minimal code changes to go from development machine to the cloud. You can choose from variety of application platforms such as Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, Python, Go, and Docker to deploy your web applications.

Variety of Application Deployment Options

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk allows you to deploy your code through the Amazon Web Services Management Console, Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Interface, Visual Studio, and Eclipse. You can pick from multiple deployment policies – all at once, rolling, rolling with an additional batch, immutable, and blue/green. These policy choices enable you to choose between speed and safety of deploying your applications while reducing the administrative burden.

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk provides a unified user interface to monitor and manage the health of your applications.

Application Health

Elastic Beanstalk collects 40+ key metrics and attributes to determine the health of your application. The Elastic Beanstalk Health Dashboard allows you to visualize overall application health and customize application health checks, health permissions, and health reporting in one unified interface.

Monitoring, Logging, and Tracing

Elastic Beanstalk is integrated with Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon X-Ray. You can leverage monitoring dashboard to view key performance metrics such as latency, CPU utilization, and response codes. You can also set up CloudWatch alarms to get notified when metrics exceed your chosen thresholds.

Management and Updates

You can choose to have Amazon Elastic Beanstalk automatically update to the latest version of your Elastic Beanstalk environment using Managed Platform Updates. The Immutable deployment mechanism ensures these updates for new patches and minor platform versions are done in a safe manner to minimize end users impact. For on-going management, you can also customize application properties, create alarms, and enable e-mail notifications via Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).

Scaling

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk leverages Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling to automatically scale your application in and out based on your application's specific needs. In addition, multiple availability zones give you an option to improve application reliability and availability by running in more than one availability zone.

Customization

With Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, you have the freedom to select the Amazon Web Services resources, such as Amazon EC2 instance type including Spot instances, that are optimal for your application. Additionally, Elastic Beanstalk lets you "open the hood" and retain full control over the Amazon Web Services resources powering your application. If you decide you want to take over some (or all) of the elements of your infrastructure, you can do so seamlessly by using Elastic Beanstalk's management capabilities.