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Understanding AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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Understanding AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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- [Instructor] Elastic Beanstalk is AWS's application platform as a service. Before we delve into platform as a service though, it might help to take one step back and understand infrastructure as a service. Infrastructure as a service platforms, like AWS, give you the tools to easily create and manage many components of a data center that would formally have involved manual effort and physical hardware. AWS has several great examples of infrastructure as a service. Think of all the details that AWS takes care of when you build a VPC, subnets, EC2 instances, load balancers, or security groups. You don't need to know how to install, deploy, and scale a load balancer. AWS abstracts that complexity and frees you up to spend time on higher level problems, such as how you want to architect your systems. Platform as a service takes things a step further. As a web developer, you may be familiar with the many steps it takes to get an application server up and running. But with platform as a…

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