This document introduces Amazon Web Services Elastic Beanstalk, which allows developers to easily deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. It discusses the key AWS services that Elastic Beanstalk utilizes like EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling and CloudWatch. It then demonstrates how to create a Beanstalk application environment and deploy a sample PHP application using Git with zero servers to manage. Developers can get started with Elastic Beanstalk for free to build and host their web applications on AWS.

1. Amazon Web Services – Elastic Beanstalk
Jeff Barr – Senior Evangelist
@jeffbarr

2. My Background
Education:
• BS in Computer Science, The American University, 1985
• Grad student in Digital Media, University of Washington, 2010-Present
Background:
• Microsoft Visual Studio team
• Consulting to startups and VC’s
• Amazon employee since 2002
Author, “Host Your Web Site in the Cloud”
Email: jbarr@amazon.com
Twitter: @jeffbarr
Copyright © 2011, Amazon Web Services LLC or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

3. What You Will Learn
• What are the Amazon Web Services?
• What are the principal AWS components?
• How do they fit together?
• How can I use AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

4. Amazon Web Services
• Launched in 2006
• Hundreds of thousands of customers in 190 countries
• Building-block IT services
• Sign up with a credit card at http://aws.amazon.com

5. AWS PLATFORM
Cloud-Powered Applications
Management & Administration
Administration Identity &
Deployment Monitoring
Console Access
Application Platform Services
Content Parallel Libraries &
Messaging
Distribution Processing SDKs
Foundation Services
Compute Storage Database Networking
Global Infrastructure
Regions
Edge Locations
Availability Zones

6. AWS Management Console

7. Amazon EC2 Architecture
Region
Amazon
Machine Availability Zone Ephemeral
Image (AMI) Storage
EC2 Instance
Elastic
Block
Storage
CloudWatch
Security
Group(s)
Amazon S3
Elastic IP
Auto Scaling Address EBS EBS
Snapshot Snapshot
Load Balancing

8. EC2 – Regions and Availability Zones
Region – One of 7 distinct physical locations:
• Northern Virginia, San Francisco, Oregon, Tokyo,
Singapore, Brazil, Ireland
Availability Zone
• Physical infrastructure (1 or more data centers)
• 2 or more AZ’s per Region
• Fault tolerance across AZ’s

9. EC2 Instance
• Amazon EC2: A Virtual Server in the Cloud
• Provision and boot new servers in minutes
• Boot from AMI (Amazon Machine Image)
• Your choice of Linux or Windows
• Quickly scale capacity up or down
• Deploy across Regions and Availability Zones for reliability
• Choose from 14 different instance types:
• CPU power
• RAM
• Local disk
• Network speed

11. EC2 Security Group
• Virtual firewall
• Control access to instance
• Default configuration: no access

12. EC2 Elastic IP Address
• Fixed IP address
• Map to any EC2 instance in a Region
• Retain address after switching instances

13. EC2 Elastic Load Balancer
Distribute traffic to an array of EC2 instances
• Scale up or scale down
• Health checks
• Traffic goes to healthy instances
• Configurable list of ports

14. Amazon CloudWatch
• Tracks and stores AWS and user-defined metrics
• 2 week retention period
• Detect issues
• Raise alerts

15. EC2 Auto Scaling
• Control number of running EC2 instances
• Scale up or down as needed
• Drive decisions based on CloudWatch metrics
• CPU load
• Network traffic
• No direct console UI at present:
• Command line
• API
• Elastic Beanstalk
• Auto-scaling group
• Instance collection
• Actions (rules)

16. EC2 Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
• Virtual disk volumes
• 1 GB – 1 TB per volume
• Create and attach to EC2 instance
• Format and write data
• Snapshot and restore
• Provison desired IOPS (up to 1000 per volume)

17. What’s Next?
So…those are all of the parts!
Can we put them all together?

18. AWS Elastic Beanstalk- Intro
• Easy to deploy and manage applications in AWS
• Application Container / PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service)
• Get started at no charge (free usage tier)
• You:
• Create and upload application
• Elastic Beanstalk:
• Capacity provisioning (EC2)
• Load balancing (ELB)
• Auto-scaling (Auto Scaling)
• Application health monitoring (CloudWatch)

19. AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Environments
.NET PHP Java
• AWS SDK for .NET • AWS SDK for PHP AWS SDK for Java
• Visual Studio Toolkit • Existing dev tools Eclipse Toolkit
• Microsoft Web Deploy • Git-based deployment
Upload WAR file
• Upload ZIP • GIT PUSH
Linux + Tomcat + Apache
• Microsoft Windows + IIS • Linux + Apache

20. AWS Elastic Beanstalk – Development & Deployment

21. AWS Elastic Beanstalk in Action (1)
Create some code (index.php)
Check code into Git:
<devserver>: git init
Initialized empty Git repository in
/home/jeff/jeffbarr_core/projects/bs_demo_1/.git/
<devserver>: git add .
<devserver>: git commit -m"Initial check-in."
[master (root-commit) fc57da3] Initial check-in.
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 index.php

22. AWS Elastic Beanstalk in Action (2)
Create Beanstalk Application

23. AWS Elastic Beanstalk in Action (2)
Wait for Application to Launch (Several Minutes)

24. AWS Elastic Beanstalk in Action (3)

25. AWS Elastic Beanstalk in Action (4)
Install and configure AWS DevTools
<devserver>: git aws.config
AWS Access Key: ……………………
AWS Secret Key: ……………………………
AWS Region: us-east-1
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application: My First Elastic Beanstalk Application
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Environment: Default-Environment

26. AWS Elastic Beanstalk in Action (5)
Push new application code:
<devserver>: git aws.push
Counting objects: 3, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 307 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote:
To
https://180P9FEG65H0CMCANER2:20120601T212315Zac4b3d5b9f
887ae461b3079927762543d94a83855a2ad0beed66b2c27b3b435e@
git.elasticbeanstalk.us-east-
1.amazonaws.com/repos/4d7920466972737420456c61737469632
04265616e7374616c6b204170706c6963617469
6f6e/Default-Environment

27. AWS Elastic Beanstalk in Action (6)

28. AWS Elastic Beanstalk in Action (7)

29. AWS Free Usage Tier

30. Next Steps for You
• Sign up for free account at http://aws.amazon.com/free/
• Build and deploy your first PHP application
• Read AWS blog at http://aws.typepad.com
• Send questions my way – jbarr@amazon.com

31. Thanks for Listening!
jbarr@amazon.com
@jeffbarr