Advanced Elastic Beanstalk Features

This section looks at various advanced features of Elastic Beanstalk that can help you architect your deployment more efficiently and better manage your environments and applications.

Elastic Beanstalk Life Cycle Policy

In the previous section, you discovered how to upload newer versions of your application to Elastic Beanstalk and examined the various deployment options available. It is important to remember that each time you upload a new version of your application, Elastic Beanstalk creates a new application version. By default, Amazon supports 1,000 application versions per region per AWS account.

If you reach this limit, you cannot deploy any further application versions. To help you manage your versions, Elastic Beanstalk enables you to configure the application version life cycle policy. A life cycle policy will enable you to define when Elastic Beanstalk deletes your application versions – you can tell Elastic Beanstalk to...