17 - Elastic Beanstalk

Your company is in a hurry of deploying their new web application written in NodeJS to AWS. As the Solutions Architect of the company, you were assigned to do the deployment without worrying about the underlying infrastructure that runs the application. Which service will you use to easily deploy and manage your new web application in AWS?

AWS ElasticBeanstalk

An online shopping platform has been deployed to AWS using Elastic Beanstalk. They simply uploaded their Node.js application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring. Since the entire deployment process is automated, the DevOps team is not sure where to get the application log files of their shopping platform. In Elastic Beanstalk, where does it store the application files and server log files?

Application files are stored in S3. The server log files can also optionally be stored in S3 or in CloudWatch Logs.

Your company has developed a financial analytics web application hosted in a Docker container using MEAN (MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, and Node.js) stack. You want to easily port that web application to AWS Cloud which can automatically handle all the tasks such as balancing load, auto-scaling, monitoring, and placing your containers across your cluster. Which of the following services can be used to fulfill this requirement?

AWS Elastic Beanstalk