They’re actually pretty different. Elastic Beanstalk is intended to make developers’ lives easier. CloudFormation is intended to make systems engineers’ lives easier. Elastic Beanstalk is a PaaS-like layer on top of AWS’s IaaS services which abstracts away the underlying EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancers, auto-scaling groups, etc. This makes it a lot easier for developers, … Read more
There are two methods you can take for this. Unfortunately some work for some EB application types and some work for others. Supported/recommended in AWS documentation For some application types, like Java SE, Go, Node.js, and maybe Ruby (it’s not documented for Ruby, but all the other Nginx platforms seem to support this), Elasticbeanstalk has … Read more
I found it to be a 2-step process. This assumes that you’ve already set up a keypair to access EC2 instances in the relevant region. Configure Security Group In the AWS console, open the EC2 tab. Select the relevant region and click on Security Group. You should have an elasticbeanstalk-default security group if you have … Read more
First off, EC2 and Elastic Compute Cloud are the same thing. Next, AWS encompasses the range of Web Services that includes EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk. It also includes many others such as S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and all the others. EC2 EC2 is Amazon’s service that allows you to create a server (AWS calls these instances) … Read more