Understanding Various Deployment Strategies
When deploying applications on Elastic Beanstalk, you often need to update with new releases to accommodate feature enhancements or bug fixes. Regularly releasing new versions of your application is also recommended rather than trying to release major upgrades after considerable time gaps, which may result in more technical and user experience issues.
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk offers several strategic options to help customers roll out new versions of their applications. Each option offers varying degrees of effort, costs, and minimizing downtime. In the next section, you’ll explore the various deployment options available in Amazon Elastic Beanstalk.
All-at-Once Deployment
This is by far the quickest option for rolling out updates. The strategy involves pushing updates to all application nodes in one shot and performing necessary upgrade operations. However, this does result in some downtime until the newer version of the...