Chapter 3. Introducing Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic File System
In the previous chapter, we started off by learning a lot about an awesome managed service called Systems Manager, which can perform virtually any and all tasks related to your EC2 instances, such as automating script executions, patching your instances, maintaining state and compliance, and much more. In this chapter, we will take things up a notch by introducing two really awesome services: Elastic Beanstalk, a service that can help you develop and deploy rich web applications in just a few clicks, and Elastic File System, a service that provides a massively scalable shared filesystem for your EC2 instances! So, keeping this in mind, let's have a quick look at the various topics that we will be covering in this chapter:
- Introducing Elastic Beanstalk and how it works
- How to manage applications, environments, and configurations with ease using Elastic Beanstalk
- Pushing your applications to AWS using the Elastic Beanstalk CLI
- Getting...