Deploying web applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk allows you to quickly deploy your applications on Cloud, and they can be made accessible to the public. You can build your applications in languages, such as Java, PHP, Ruby, and so on and deploy them to the application server of your choice, such as Apache Tomcat, PHP, Windows Server, Node.js, and so on.

You can read more about Elastic Beanstalk at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/Welcome.html.

In this recipe, we will see how to deploy the Address Book application using Elastic Beanstalk and access it from Cloud.

Getting ready

To get started with this recipe, you should already have built your application and tested it locally. There are several ways to deploy the application, but for this recipe, we will use the Eclipse AWS Toolkit. You should also have installed the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. If you haven't done this yet, you can refer to http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSToolkitEclipse/latest/GettingStartedGuide...