AWS Beanstalk & Architecture Solutions

Elastic Beanstalk

-Platform as a service -Allows quick deployment of apps -Reduces management complexity

Quickly Instantiating Applications

- For EC2 instances use Golden AMI or Bootstrap using User Data

Quickly Instantiating RDS DB's

- Restore from snapshot: DBs will have schema and data ready

Quickly Instantiating EBS Volumes

- Restore from snapshot: Disk will be formatted and have data

Golden AMI

- Useful for quickly launching EC2 instances - Installs apps, OS dependencies beforehand and then launch EC2 instance