Author: Jeff Barr

I’ve been looking forward to being able to tell you about this new part of AWS for quite a while. Perhaps I’m biased, but I do think that this is a pretty big deal! I think we’ve managed to balance power and ease of use in a nice tidy package that will make AWS even […]

The default configuration settings for your AWS Elastic Beanstalk application were chosen to work well under a wide variety of conditions. However, rest assured that you have the ability to view and to edit the settings as you’d like if and when you decide to “open the hood” (so to speak). You can do all […]

You can create, test, debug, and deploy an AWS Elastic Beanstalk application from within the comfort of the Eclipse IDE. The newest version of the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse includes a brand-new plug-in that lets you deploy Java web applications to Elastic Beanstalk from within Eclipse. This toolkit includes the AWS SDK for Java along […]

The AWS Management Console includes support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. If you already have a Java WAR file that you want to use to try out Elastic Beanstalk, you can do so through its browser-based interface. If you don’t happen to have an application of your own handy, you can use the sample application provided […]

Let’s talk about the way that your design your application for use within AWS Elastic Beanstalk.. As I have already mentioned, Elastic Beanstalk will handle the nitty-gritty day-to-day details associated with running and scaling your application. You get to focus on your application and on your customers instead of on the details of the infrastructure. […]

Just like every other part of AWS, Elastic Beanstalk is programmable. A complete set of Elastic Beanstalk command line tools is available. You can use the Elastic Beanstalk APIs or the command line tools to integrate Elastic Beanstalk into your existing development process in new and interesting ways. For example, Makefiles (and other build tools […]

In this post I would like to introduce you to some of the principal concepts behind AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This information should be helpful to you as you read the remaining blog posts in this collection. Here are the terms that you need to know: An Application is a collection of Elastic Beanstalk application versions […]

Update (December 2023) – Eric emailed to let me know that HeyWatch is now Coconut. I have adjusted the names and links in this post accordingly — Jeff; Earlier this week I spent some time on the phone with Eric Fontaine of Coconut (formerly HeyWatch). Eric gave me some background information on their video encoding […]