Running modern Elastic Beanstalk applications can be quite a daunting task. To be able to run the Elastic Beanstalk application code, the operations team will usually be required to maintain a set of inter-dependent resources consisting of the following:
- A host with an operating system
- A programming language interpreter
- An application server with prerequisites such as frameworks, runtimes, libraries, and modules
- An HTTP service to present the Elastic Beanstalk application
- External components such as load balancers, databases, message queues, and so on
A whole lot of resources can be spent operating, maintaining, updating, patching, and making sure that the service is reliable, resilient, and highly available. Sometimes, it feels like it would be wonderful to have a service that could do all of this for us. Well, we have one—the AWS Elastic...