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Blue/Green Deployments with Elastic Beanstalk

In the world of continuous deployment and high-availability applications, blue/green deployment has become a critical strategy. This lab focuses on a fundamental, yet crucial step in implementing blue/green deployments: creating and managing multiple environments in AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

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Level
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 45m
Last updated
Clock icon Aug 16, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create Elastic Beanstalk Environment

    Launch a new Elastic beanstalk loadout using the service role and EC2 that the lab enviorment created

  2. Challenge

    Clone Elastic Beanstalk Environment

    Clone your previously made Elastic Beanstalk environment.

  3. Challenge

    Swap the Domains

    Swap the Domains (CNAMEs) and confirm.

  4. Challenge

    Set up the Trust Relationship

    Set up the Trust relationship so the environments can see and use the aws-elasticbeanstalk-ec2-role.

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