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You're reading from AWS Certified Developer ??? Associate Guide Your one-stop solution to passing the AWS developer's certification

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787125629

Length 600 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Tankariya

Parmar

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

1. AWS Certified Developer – Associate Certification FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS

3. Identity and Access Management

4. Virtual Private Clouds

5. Getting Started with Elastic Compute Cloud

6. Handling Application Traffic with Elastic Load Balancing

7. Monitoring with CloudWatch

8. Simple Storage Service, Glacier, and CloudFront

9. Other AWS Storage Options

10. AWS Relational Database Services

11. AWS DynamoDB - A NoSQL Database Service

12. Amazon Simple Queue Service

13. Simple Notification Service

14. Simple Workflow Service

15. AWS CloudFormation

16. Elastic Beanstalk

17. Overview of AWS Lambda

18. Mock Tests

Index

Deploying web applications to Elastic Beanstalk environments

Elastic Beanstalk allows you to create a new web application using the web application tier or worker tier, update an environment with a newer web application version, or redeploy an earlier uploaded web application version:

Deploying a new web application is very quick. It creates an underlying required AWS resource and deploys a web application.
While updating a newer version of a web application, you can perform in-place update. This means that the already deployed web application will be updated with a newer source bundle and may result in restarting the web container or the web application server. As a result, the web application may be unavailable for a while.
When an environment has more than one EC2 instance, in such a situation, a newer version of a web application can be deployed in a rolling manner. It helps to avoid total unavailability of a web application. It will deploy a newer version of a web application in instance...