Amazon Elastic Beanstalk provides a platform for deploying and scaling web applications easily on AWS. It automatically handles the deployment, capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring of applications hosted on AWS. It supports popular programming languages such as Java, PHP, Python and .NET and integrates with other AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS and DynamoDB. It allows deploying applications easily via a web console or API and handles tasks such as provisioning servers, load balancing, automatic scaling and application health monitoring.

1. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
Eberhard Wolff
Architecture & Technology Manager
adesso AG

2. History & Origin

3. History & Origin
• Amazon: cloud pioneer
• Original offerings
– EC2 Elastic Computer Cloud
– S3 Simple Storage Service
• Many other offerings
– E.g. (relational) databases, Map / Reduce
…
• Foundation for many other services

4. Other Amazon Services
• Elastic Load Balancer
• Auto Scaling (starts new EC2 instances)
• EBS: Elastic Block Storage (virtual
harddisks)

5. Elastic Beanstalk in a Nutshell
• EC2 Server Elastic Load Balancer
Auto Scaling
• +Linux
• +OpenJDK EC2 Server EC2 Server
• +Tomcat Linux
OpenJDK
Linux
OpenJDK
...
• Scaling Elastic Tomcat Tomcat
Load Balancer /
Auto Scaling
• Deploy artefacts WAR
on S3 S3

6. Programming Model
• OpenJDK + Tomcat
• Standard Java Programming Model
• Also supported: Python, PHP
(Linux), .NET (Windows Server
2008R2)

7. Scaling / High Availability
• Servers automatically started (Auto
Scaling)
• Failed servers will be restarted
• Servers can run in several data centers

8. Tools

9. Web Console
• Web UI
• Wizard to create new application
• + environment to run the application on

19. Some tricks...
• Easy to create a new environment
• E.g. for testing, staging
• URLs can be swapped
– deploy new version on new environment
– switch URLs
– zero downtime

20. More tools
• All web console action also possible
using SOAP Web Services
• Eclipse Plug In
– Manage all AWS resources (EC2, S3…)
– Manage Elastic Beanstalk server just like
local servers

21. Eclipse Plug In

22. Flexibility

23. Flexibility
• Tuning possible
– E.g. JVM parameters
– Load balancer configuration
– Can even use your own system images
– i.e. can add software, fine tune …
• Can log into running servers
• Session handling can be tuned
• Can use EC2 if Elastic Beanstalk is not
flexible enough

24. New: Configuration Files
• Part of the deployable artefact
• declaratively install packages & libraries
• configure software components
• run commands
• set environment variables
• create users & groups

25. Platform and other Services

26. Plattform
• Amazon Web Services
• Proven foundation
• Used for many other cloud plattforms
• …and by many users
• Includes monitoring
• No additional charges to EC2 / S3
• Free tier (750 h/month for one year)
available

27. Other Services
• Amazon Relational Database Service
– Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server
– Integration in Elastic Beanstalk possible
• Diverse NoSQL solutions (e.g.
DynamoDB, SimpleDB)
• Lots of AWS services (Map/Reduce,
Caches etc)
• Other services provided by 3rd parties

28. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk:
Highlights
• Proven foundation
• Standard Java stack (Tomcat +
OpenJDK)
• World wide availability (incl. Europe)
• Lots of additional services