Summary

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an orchestration service provided by AWS. It can deploy applications that orchestrate a number of AWS services, such as EC2 instances, S3 buckets and objects, CloudWatch, SNS, ELB, and autoscaling.
• Most of the deployment and infrastructure tasks, such as uploading a newer version of a web application and changing the size of the Amazon EC2 instances, can be done directly from the Elastic Beanstalk web console.
• The web server environment and the worker environment are the two environment tiers supported by Elastic Beanstalk.
• Every Elastic Beanstalk environment carries a CNAME and an alias in Amazon Route 53 pointing to the ELB.
• The Elastic Beanstalk source bundle should be a single ZIP or WAR file.
• To deploy a worker application in a worker tier, the application source bundle must also include the cron.yaml file.
• Creating a web application and...