Best Practices For Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Implement least privilege access: You can customize roles and grant only the permissions that are required for your environment’s instances, the Elastic Beanstalk service, and your users to perform their tasks.
- Update your platforms regularly:Elastic Beanstalk regularly releases new platform versions to update all of its platforms. New platform versions provide operating system, runtime, application server, and web server updates, and updates to Elastic Beanstalk components. Many of these platform updates include important security fixes.
- Enable Elastic Beanstalk Enhanced Health Reporting: Enhanced Health Reporting is the AWS Elastic Beanstalk feature that allows the service to gather additional information about the resources available within your EB environments. Once the feature is enabled, the EB service analyzes all the information gathered to provide a better picture of the overall environment health and to help you identify any issues that can cause your web application(s) to become unavailable.
- Enforce HTTPS: Ensure that HTTPS is enabled for the load balancer associated with your Amazon Elastic Beanstalk application environment in order to handle encrypted web traffic
How to Use AWS Elastic Beanstalk For Scalable Web Application Deployment?
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.