Understanding the built-in functionality of Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk is a flexible platform that allows developers who develop in languages such as Python, Java, Ruby, .NET, PHP: Hypertext pre-processor (PHP), Go, or even Docker containers to develop and scale out their applications swiftly. Elastic Beanstalk is a Platform as a Service (PaaS), which means that it is serving as an abstraction layer above all of the other services that it is helping orchestrate and manage. This makes it easy for developers who are eager to get going with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud but might not have a vast amount of knowledge of items such as setting up infrastructure or monitoring, the ability to get started, and concentrating on their application in the language of their choice.

Elastic Beanstalk is constantly updating the languages and platforms that it supports. While it does not always support the latest version of a language, it does try to keep up to date with newer revisions...