overview-of-deployment-options-on-aws

Amazon Web Services – Deployment Options on AWS March 2015
Deployment Category Description AWS Elastic
Feature 1 Beanstalk
AWS Cloud
Formation
AWS
OpsWorks
AWS
CodeDeploy
Provision
Provision
infrastructure
EC2 instances,
Amazon EBS
volumes, VPC,
etc.
(Details) 2 (Details) (Details) N/A
Deploy
Deploy
applications
Deploy
applications from
chosen repository
(Details) 2 (Details) (Details) (Details)
Configure
Configuration
management
Install software,
configure software
and AWS
resources
(Details) (Details) (Details)
Scale Scalability Automatically
scale to handle
the load
Monitoring Monitoring Monitor events,
resources,
application health
(Details) (Details) (Details) N/A
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Logging
Troubleshooting,
security
System,
application logs
(Details) (Details) (Details) (Details)
Instance
profiles
Security
Securely access
AWS services
such as Amazon
S3, DynamoDB
(Details) (Details) (Details) (Details)
Custom
variables
Configuration
management
Pass variables to
application
environments
(Details) (Details) (Details) N/A
Other AWS
service
integration
Service
integration
Integration with
other AWS
services
(Details) (Details) (Details) (Details)
Tags
Security,
troubleshooting,
configuration
management
Automate
configuring tags
on EC2, Amazon
RDS
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1. Lists only the relevant deployment service with the common feature set.
2. Elastic Beanstalk provisions the resources to support either web application that handles HTTP(S) requests or a web application that
handles background-processing tasks.
Provision
As mentioned earlier, you can work with the building blocks such as Amazon
EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
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