An introduction to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, a service to help run your Java web applications on the Amazon cloud, leaving you free to focus on your app. Slides from the London Java Community meetup, 1st June 2011.

1. Elastic Beanstalk
Matt Wood
T E C H N O L O G Y E VA N G E L I S T

2. Hello.

4. Thank you.

5. 4

6. 1
Building
blocks

8. Infrastructure
services

10. Compute

12. Storage

14. Databases

16. Services
+
Support

18. 5 years young

19. ?

21. On demand

23. Pay as you go

25. Pay for what you use

27. Elastic

29. Scale up

31. Scale down

33. Agility

35. Development
agility

37. Business agility

38. 2
Introducing
Elastic
Beanstalk

39. Easily manage and deploy
web applications in the cloud

40. Focus on your app

41. Idea Product

42. Idea Product
Heavy lifting

43. Scale
Redundancy
Admins
70%
Idea Product
Heavy lifting
Capacity
Management Procurement

44. 30%
Idea Product
Infrastructure

45. Maintenance
Monitoring
30%
Idea Product
Infrastructure
Logging
New releases
& environment

46. Idea Product
Elastic Beanstalk

47. Idea Product
Elastic Beanstalk

48. Focus on your app

52. Your Application
Application Service
Java Web Platform
HTTP Service
Tomcat
Language Interpreter
Java
Operating System
Linux
Server
Amazon EC2

54. Best practice

56. Highly available

58. Customisable

60. Flexible

62. Transparent

63. 3
Beanstalk
by Example

65. Created your
new app

67. Now what?

68. Demo!

70. What’s
happening?

78. How do I create
a web app for
Elastic Beanstalk?

80. Just like any other
web app!

82. Rapid iterations

85. IDE integration

89. Multiple environments

91. How do I manage
my web app?

93. Log files

98. Notifications

102. Metrics

106. Configurable

111. Where is the data?

113. B.Y.O.D.S.

116. clone produc(on

117. automate tests

118. How does my app
scale?

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132. Auto-scaling

134. 6 am

135. 10 am

136. 10 am

137. 10 am

138. 7 pm

139. 7 pm

140. 7 pm

142. Triggers

145. How does Elastic
Beanstalk handle
failure?

147. Design for availability

152. store session data in a database
Use Tomcat JDBC Session Store persistence

153. store session data in a database
Use Tomcat JDBC Session Store persistence
+ transparent read‐replicas

154. store session data in a memcached pool
Using memcached session manager for Tomcat

156. Availability zone
redundancy

160. What is the price?

162. Free

163. Free
Only pay for
the resources you use

166. 4
Pro
Beanstalk

168. Custom machine
images

170. CloudFormation

172. Complex architectures

174. JVM

176. Host Manager

178. Alternative app servers

180. In summary...

181. Undifferentiated
heavy lifting

182. Faster time to market

183. Pay for what you use

184. Rapid deployment

185. Use any datastore

186. Root access

187. Monitoring +
notifications

188. aws.amazon.com

189. Thank you!

190. Q U E S T I O N S + C O M M E N T S
matthew@amazon.com
@mza
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