Before we jump into deploying an application using Elastic Beanstalk, let's discuss some of the terminology that you need to be aware of. These terminologies will help you to deploy and manage an application in the cloud.
- Application: This is a logical collection of components such as environments, application versions, and environment configurations. You can treat an application as a top-level folder, but not actually a folder. It is still your application, holding the code and configurations.
- Application version: This is a part of the application. Each application version is unique and applications can have multiple versions. You can run different environments for different application versions or the same application version. These application versions are nothing but deployable code in the form of WAR or ZIP files. You simply upload the application...