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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in Cloud Application Platforms (Transitioning to Cloud-Native Application Platforms)
4.4

Overview

Product Information on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Updated 13th October 2025

What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a software solution that enables developers to deploy and manage web applications and services. It automates tasks such as environment provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and monitoring, allowing users to focus on application development rather than infrastructure management. The software supports a variety of programming languages and frameworks, providing integration with platforms such as Java, Python, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Ruby, and Go. It addresses the business problem of operational overhead associated with deploying scalable web applications, streamlining configuration and orchestration of required resources while providing options for customization and control over the application environment.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Pricing

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a software that follows a pay-as-you-go pricing model where users are charged based on the underlying AWS resources such as compute, storage, and data transfer consumed by the software, with no additional charge for the use of the software itself or upfront fees.

Overall experience with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

LEAD CLOUD ARCHITECT
500M - 1B USD, Media
FAVORABLE

“Efficient Rollout Automation Present, Yet Platform and Language Options Remain Limited”

4.0
Dec 3, 2025
The Service makes it easy to adopt cloud Service deployment as it provides full automation, patch management, logging, monitoring and easy deployment automation with minimal effort - if the required platform is supported.
Engineer
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education
CRITICAL

“Custom Development For Settings and Integrations Resulted in Poor Overall Experience”

2.0
Dec 1, 2025
pretty bad experience iverall, everything was custom for the development and I did not enjoy it

About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Updated 23rd December 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://aws.amazon.com

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk Likes & Dislikes

Like

Easy deployment automation (rolling, blue/green, ..) - even for windows applications. Rollback capabilities and deployment versioning are also a must for enterprises. The rolling OS and platform update capabilities are also very good.

Like

it was nice to have the reliability of aws gateway

Like

ease of use easy to deploy different types of apps ( ruby on rails and golang) easy to use other aws products with this service

Dislike

The platform and language support is limited and very much constrained. The service puts certain default guardrails in place, which are not necessarily secure. The default capability to also manage RDS has its flaws, which is why most recommend to manage that OOB.

Dislike

support custom development for settings integration with dervices

Dislike

the cost can be tough for smaller developers

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(29 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
55%
4 Star
34%
3 Star
7%
2 Star
3%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

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4.5

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4.4

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4.4

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4.5

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  • LEAD CLOUD ARCHITECT
    50M-1B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Efficient Rollout Automation Present, Yet Platform and Language Options Remain Limited

    4.0
    Dec 3, 2025
    The Service makes it easy to adopt cloud Service deployment as it provides full automation, patch management, logging, monitoring and easy deployment automation with minimal effort - if the required platform is supported.
  • Software Developer
    50M-1B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    AWS Web apps deployment

    5.0
    Dec 3, 2025
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk allowed me to deploy web apps for healthcare companies. it was easy to hse and setup.
  • IT SERVICES ASSOCIATE
    <50M USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Web Team Reports Smooth Deployment Experience and Lack of Major Concerns

    5.0
    Dec 3, 2025
    As reliable as the top player, will be a tough thing to move away from it
  • Chief Executive Officer
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Government
    Review Source

    Straightforward Platform Helps Junior Cloud Engineers Learn Infrastructure as Code Easily

    5.0
    Dec 2, 2025
    easy to use and suitable for junior cloud engineers to pick up IaC and devs to focus
  • Engineer
    10B+ USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    System Setup Process Enables Fast Deployment and Efficient Team Performance

    5.0
    Dec 3, 2025
    setting up the system is so quick. i was able to set the system and get it working quickly. also this helps the team for quick turnaround and saving valuable time to focus on business related issues
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