Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most popular platforms for hosting applications. AWS is a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies, and governments, on a paid subscription basis. The reason for its popularity is that it offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services.
Since this is the last section of this chapter, we will guide you through the process of deploying to AWS step by step. We will show you how to deploy our API Spring Boot application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. We will also show you how to customize the Spring Boot configuration through the use of environment variables.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides convention over configuration, but it still gives us the ability to make adjustments if needed. Elastic Beanstalk is a managed service designed for deploying...