Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk is AWS’s platform as a service: you supply the code, and it provisions the EC2 instances, load balancer, Auto Scaling group and monitoring, deploys the application onto them, and manages them afterwards. It is one of AWS’s oldest services and remains widely used, because for a conventional web application it removes a week of assembly work.

Start with Elastic Beanstalk, which covers applications, environments, versions and the six deployment options and how they trade deployment time against downtime and rollback.

Elastic Beanstalk and App Runner compares it with AWS App Runner — relevant mainly to teams that already run App Runner services, since App Runner closed to new customers on 30 April 2026.