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Building Applications Using Elastic Beanstalk

by Lee Atchison

Elastic Beanstalk is a service by Amazon Web Services that makes standing up and maintaining web applications easier and more convenient. This course helps you understand how Elastic Beanstalk works and how you can use it to build your application.

What you'll learn

Operating scalable web applications on Amazon Web Services requires significant knowledge and expertise. Elastic Beanstalk streamlines this process and removes the tedium and potential for problems. In this course, Building Applications Using Elastic Beanstalk, you'll learn how to launch web applications using Elastic Beanstalk. First, you'll learn how to manage, deploy, and scale your applications using Elastic Beanstalk. Next, you'll discover how to configure Elastic Beanstalk and make the best use of the capabilities Elastic Beanstalk provides for your applications. Finally, you'll explore the fundamental techniques required to use Elastic Beanstalk and manage applications running in Elastic Beanstalk. When you're finished with this course, you'll be able to use Elastic Beanstalk to its full potential in order to help you operate your applications.

About the author

Lee Atchison is the Principal Cloud Architect and Advocate at New Relic. He’s been with New Relic for four years where he led the building of the New Relic infrastructure products, and helped New Relic architect a solid service-based system. He has a specific expertise in building highly available systems. Lee has 28 years of industry experience, and learned cloud-based, scalable systems during his seven years as a Senior Manager at Amazon.com, where among other things he led the creation of AW... more

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