Understanding application deployment with Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk is a service that enables you to deploy your application without having to manually configure the underlying infrastructure that will support the application. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk does all the heavy lifting, which involves provisioning the necessary infrastructure to host and manage your application. This includes capacity provisioning, scaling, load balancing, and health monitoring.

If your application is developed in one of the supported languages, which includes Go, Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, and a few others, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk will build out the platform using one or more AWS resources, such as EC2 instances, to run your application. All you need to do is follow a prescribed process to deploy your application.

Another option to consider is to use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy Docker containers. This gives you a lot more flexibility because, with Docker containers,...