Creating the Metabase application

With our sizing decisions made, and our IAM user and VPC created, we can now configure and deploy our Metabase instance inside our new VPC. We'll get started by leaving AWS momentarily to visit :

1. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, where it reads Read about how to run Metabase on AWS, and click the AWS link.
2. From there, click the Launch Metabase on Elastic Beanstalk link. You'll be redirected to the AWS console and prompted to create the web app.

Creating a web app in Elastic Beanstalk

Before we continue on the Create a web app page, let's get clarity on some confusing AWS terminology.

In Elastic Beanstalk, an application is defined as a "logical collection of components, including environments and configurations" and can be thought of as a folder. The actual running instance of Metabase, what we generally think of as "our application," is called an Environment in Elastic Beanstalk parlance...