AWS Elastic Beanstalk, the backbone of cloud applications & deployment
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an all-rounder product that helps us quickly deploy our software on the cloud. It also allows us to scale up easily on demand.
Pros
- It helps us to deploy several services of AWS in the cloud.
- Out of the box security and privacy provided by AWS Elastic Beanstalk is unmatchable.
- The user experience is super intuitive and helps a lot throughout the deployment process.
- Reliability across different services is quite surprising.
Cons
- It's very easy to get started with but very difficult to master, as the documentation is scattered across and the tutorials are dated. So one has to be well experienced in this in order to make the most out of the service.
- Even though the user experience is good, it's backdated, it has an old UI system, which could be changed, and a modern, fresh look can be used.
- While working with AWS Elastic Beanstalk, one has to be very attentive and scrutinise all the steps in order to miss out settings, which can lead to surprising billings (which is a very common phenomena.)
Likelihood to Recommend
I have been using AWS Elastic Beanstalk for more than 5 years, and it has made our life so easy and hassle-free. Here are some scenarios where it excels -
<ul><li>I have been using different AWS services like EC2, S3, Cloudfront, Serverless, etc. And Elastic Beanstalk makes our lives easier by tieing each service together and making the deployment a smooth process.</li><li> N number of integrations with different CI/CD pipelines make this most engineer's favourite service.</li><li> Scalability & Security comes with the service, which makes it the absolute perfect product for your business.</li></ul>
Personally, I haven't found any situations where it's not appropriate for the use cases it can be used. The pricing is also very cost-effective.