Deploy a Web Application Using Elastic Beanstalk (New Version of UI) | AWS Tutorial for Beginners

Elastic Beanstalk is Amazon’s “platform as a service” solution, allowing you to “just write code,” and then Elastic Beanstalk does all the work of setting up and maintaining the underlying infrastructures (EC2 instances, load balancers, auto-scaling groups and more).
In this hands-on tutorial, we’ll deploy a sample Python web application (built-in with Elastic Beanstalk), setting up an application and an environment (and first of all, what’s the difference?). After deployment is complete, we’ll take a look at our masterpiece of an app, see what happened behind the scenes, and then finally, we’ll delete the application and environment.
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00:00 - Getting started with Elastic Beanstalk by creating a new application
00:18 - The difference between an application and environment in Elastic Beanstalk
02:00 - Creating a new application in Elastic Beanstalk
02:29 - Creating and configuring a new environment (with sample code) in Elastic Beanstalk
07:48 - Watching deployment progress with Elastic Beanstalk
08:18 - Viewing the application and behind-the-scenes with Elastic Beanstalk after deployment
10:19 - Deleting the application and environment in Elastic Beanstalk

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

What else do you want to learn about AWS? Let me know below in the comments! 🤓🤓

[@RL-qr9sr]

Hi, I don't know if this would be interesting for all the viewers or if it's suitable for a tiny tutorial, but could you consider guiding us on how to plot metrics in widgets? I'm particularly interested in understanding the period selection and other mathematical/filtering options. Sometimes it's very frustrating to watch as your metrics disappear or show unexpected values, as the official documentation lacks examples. Anyways, thank you for all the effort you put into these videos. I really appreciate it!

[@07amma1]

running an kubernetes cluster on eks with backend and frontend nodes

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Thanks for the suggestion, R L! I'll add this to my list. 👍

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

I'll add this to my list of ideas for future videos. Thanks for suggesting it! 🙏🌟🤓

[@bhanuprasadtirumani]

Madam, could you please explain the questions that are being asked in AWS associate developer certification exam.

[@babusivaprakasam9846]

Another great tutorial. Nice flow and straight to the point. Loved it!

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching! 🤓🙏🌟

[@samjones4327]

Hey hey! Thanks for the new Elastic Beanstalk update! I've been hearing about it but was waiting for you to speak about it first!😊 Thanks for updating us and I appreciate you very much for all that you do for us once again! Be well, be safe and Cheers!!!

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Thanks so much, Super Fan Sam!! Appreciate you! 🙏🌟😊

[@samjones4327]

And I appreciate you!@@TinyTechnicalTutorials

[@StudyStreamPlus]

Thanks. This served as a good introduction to ECS for me.

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

A very belated thank you!! Really appreciate it! 🥰🙏🌟

[@eliasperez5168]

I love your video amd calming voice ❤️💕

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Awwwww...thanks so much!!! 🥰🙏

[@neilallen460]

Nice! No nonsense explanation. Thank you.

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Yay! A very belated thank you!! Really appreciate it! 🥰🙏🌟

[@neilallen460]

@@TinyTechnicalTutorials Hey there. Finally got round to trying this today, and what a nightmare! A couple of errors, (failure to launch environment, and EC2 role). It seemed to try to create the environment, but was taking hours. I gave up in the end. Normal for AWS.

[@caiyu538]

Great lecture. Great voice.

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Thank you kindly!! 🤓🙏🌟

[@muqeetsultan]

Thankyou! Couldn't find another video like this.

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

A very belated thank you!! Really appreciate it! 🥰🙏🌟

[@avimehenwal]

Excellent demo to beanstalk. Thankyou for the video

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Yay! I'm so glad it helped. Thanks for watching! 🤓🙏🌟

[@ninadchaudhary2.0-wv5hb]

Very easily explained. Thank you so much

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching, and for the nice comment! 🤓🙏🌟

[@neviswarren]

Excellent video. Very informative. Thank you.

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Thanks so much! 🙏🌟🤓 Glad it was helpful!

[@ahmadbeylouny1245]

Wonderful videos as always ❤

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

You're too kind, Ahmad! Thanks for supporting the channel! 🙏🤓😊🌟

[@palishloko]

thank you so much for this video 🙏👍 you are a life savior

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

You bet! Glad it helped! 🤓🔥

[@navedahmad7737]

That was helpful. Great content

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching! 🙏🤓🌟

[@tech-gecko]

Thank you very much. This was useful to me.

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching! 🙏🌟🤓

[@srikanthbabuvudharapu1931]

If this is something you can find as importance, would consider having a video on 'How would one can configure these for production-environment for a given requirement, and how to measure the metrics and configure load-balancers and other vital things'

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Ooh, interesting idea! I'll add this to my list of things to cover in future videos. Thanks for the suggestion! 🙏🤓🌟

[@haus_automation]

Thank you so much!!

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

You bet! Thanks for watching!! 🙏🌟🤓

[@CodingWithTaaxo]

Thanks for the great tutorial

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

You bet! Thanks for watching! 🙏🤓🌟

[@travelingcinematically]

great work, also your voice is very soothing 🥰

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Awwwww...thank you SO much!! 🙏🌟🥰 Really appreciate the support!

[@deldridg]

Lovely and thank you. I'm about to deploy a Django app to AWS and this has been very useful. Like many others, I think I need to further my knowledge on IAM and EC2 roles in order to get the job done properly. Cheers from Sydney - Dave

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

G'day, Dave from Sydney! 👋 Sorry for the super slow response. Were able to get your Django app working? I've added the IAM/EC2 roles part to my list for a future video. I know I breezed through them in this video. Hope you were able to muddle through and get it working. 🤓

[@deldridg]

@@TinyTechnicalTutorials All good and thanks for responding. Yes, thanks to you I did get it going and it's being used by happy clients all over the globe right now! I still need to brush up on IAM/EC2 roles and look forward to seeing your sagely contributions when you get to it! Cheers from Sydney Dave! 😁

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Wow, "happy clients all over the globe"! That's so awesome! 💪🔥🤓 Cheers!

[@shashanksharma7747]

How we can create the roles of aws-elasticbeanstalk-service-role and aws-elasticbeanstalk-ec2-role please help me with this how can I create this Roles

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hi Shashank! 👋 Referencing the documentation, "When you launch an environment in the Elastic Beanstalk console, the console creates a default service role that's named aws-elasticbeanstalk-service-role, and attaches managed policies with default permissions to this service role." More details here: docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/iam-servicerole.html For the ec2-role, here's more info on that one: docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/iam-instanceprofile.html Hope that helps! 😊

[@shashanksharma7747]

@@TinyTechnicalTutorials Thanks for sharing the docs

[@anshadkt2662]

can I host my strapi in elasticbeanstalk??? please reply if my comment has been reached on to u@@TinyTechnicalTutorials

[@DarionDAnjou]

@@TinyTechnicalTutorials Thanks for the great tutorial. For some reason I am also having an issue right at this same point in configure environment step where if i say Create and use new service role, while the Service role name gets populated, the EC2 instance profile does not get populated. What to do?!

[@garym7599]

Firstly, I appreciate the clarity you provide throughout all your tutorials. May i ask, can this be done with a codecanyon saas script that requires installation?

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Thanks for the kind words, Gary! 😊 I haven't used anything from CodeCanyon before, so am probably not the best person to answer. I know you can run custom scripts with Elastic Beanstalk at various stages of the deployment: repost.aws/knowledge-center/elastic-beanstalk-platform-hooks. But I'm not sure if that's what you were thinking when you say "Saas" script? Anyway, hopefully that helps a bit...sorry I'm not more of an expert on it! 🤓

[@hikosaemon]

Hey, I love your videos - I'm stuck on 5:19 because when I first tried this it failed as I was missing an EC2 instance profile. I'm not trying to figure out how to set one up and struggling a bit with it. It isn't obvious in IAM settings (I see a role but not an instance profile setting...). Appreciate any tips on where to go to set this up.

[@hikosaemon]

Aaand figured it out - for those curious, you have to set up an IAM Role for EC2 with standard policies for AWSElasticBeanstalkMulticontainerDocker AWSElasticBeanstalkWebTier and AWSElasticBeanstalkWorkerTier attached, which is included in the info in that menu. If you create the role and then refresh the pulldown for EC2 instance profiles, you should then have an EC2 profile to select. Woohoo! now it worked! Thanks always for these! Hoping you can show us a Bedrock demo soon!

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Thanks for the update, Hikosaemon! Glad you were able to figure it out. 🤓💪

[@jreed1701d]

I'd enjoy a more in-depth tutorial where there was an app that has workers and used a database. That's what I'm looking at trying to set up and I'm honestly not sure if I need a multi-environment app or what. Have much more research / learning to do. At least I'm familiar with the UI with this video. Thanks!

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Thanks for the suggestion, Joshua! 😊🙏🌟 I'll add this to my list. In the meantime, I recently came across this page for Elastic Beanstalk tutorials: docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/tutorials.html. These look to be a little more robust than most. Hope it helps!

[@davebecker806]

@@TinyTechnicalTutorials - what about Symfony? Why have Cake & Laravel, but not Symfony!? I'm not mad at you, i LOVE your videos, I'm frustrated because it seems like I'm the only person to ever try to deploy a Symfony app on AWS. Did I back the wrong horse?

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hi Dave! 👋 I've done zero with Symfony myself, but it seems that it's supported? docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/php-symfony-tutorial.html

[@Yaz71023]

Thank you for the video. Kindly, can you do another video when we want to connect to a project based in a Github Repo! I spent 3-days to achieve that but ended up with “Degraded” health message. All the existing tutorials that i have found are using the old GUI for the Elasticbeanstalk!

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Ooh, great suggestion--thank you! I'll add this to my list! 🙏🌟

[@TarequeR]

Nice video it would be great if you did a video showing how to secure the deployed elastic beanstalk application so that it moves from http to https.

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Ooh, great idea! And very real-world. I'll add this to my list for future videos. Thanks for watching! 🤓🌟🙏

[@suriyasuriya5211]

2ndstep-Configuration service access New iam service role Or existing iam role pls tell this step confused then ec2 instsnce profile option show empty guide me

[@aritroroyarko3713]

Thanks you for this wonderful video. In my web-app, I would like to read data (point-cloud data) from S3 buckets. What would be the best and fastest way to do that? Is it by mounting the S3 bucket or should I use any other data storage? Thank you!

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Thanks for watching, Aritro! 🤓 Yes, S3 is a great, inexpensive way to store data for your app. To store and retrieve things, you can use the SDK, which supports a variety of languages. Maybe this will help get you started: docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/example_s3_Scenario_GettingStarted_section.html

[@rubencontesti221]

I have been struggling to set up IAM policies for Elastic Beanstalk. I wish you could how you created those used in the video. Many thanks!

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hi Ruben! 👋 Sorry for the slow response! I've deleted the environment I was using for the video and can't remember what I'd set up, but it was probably pretty standard/accepting defaults. But this is good feedback to not skip over stuff like that in the future! 🤓 And if it helps, here's the official Elastic Beanstalk documentation for IAM stuff: docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/AWSHowTo.iam.html.

[@DguruZ]

Great video! One question, How do I get https for my application?

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Thanks for watching, @DguruZ! 🤓 Maybe this will help get you started with HTTPS? repost.aws/knowledge-center/elastic-beanstalk-https-configuration

[@SydneyEV]

how to connect our Elastic Beanstalk application with other AWS function like Cognito for login and creating users, or how to make a basic page for users to upload images and post a comment, like a basic message board in AWSBeanstalk and what's needed to do something like that.

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hi SydneyEV! 👋 Here's the official word about integrating Elastic Beanstalk with other services: docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/AWSHowTo.html. Cognito isn't on the list, which makes me think it might be doable, but probably not very straightforward. 😊 You might be better off with something like Amplify, which easily works with Cognito (I recently published a video with a sample project for that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKaupmOMe86ql9U). This is about the only thing I can find for the Cognito integration, but can't vouch that it would actually work: stackoverflow.com/questions/53896600/integrate-elasticbeanstalk-with-cognito-user-pool. If you figure something out, feel free to post it here in case it helps someone else!

[@mkcraghead]

For your auto-scaling group you used the default of 1. However, you used two AZs, if I'm not mistaken. Does that mean that there is one instance in each AZ? Thanks. 😕

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hi @mkcraghead! 👋 You're right...for the auto-scaling group, I said min and max of 1 instance. So using 2 AZs doesn't really make sense here...the 1 instance will just go to 1 AZ. If I had 2 instances, then 1 instance would be in each of the 2 AZs. Good catch! 🤓

[@RamziRebai]

Thank you, but how to add the SSL certificate to this Elastic Beanstalk website ?

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hi Ramzi! 👋 Maybe this will help get you started? docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/configuring-https.html

[@thepablopissoni]

beautiful voice

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Awwww...thanks so much! 🥰🌟🙏

[@youtubecurious9000]

Are these videos (in aws playlist) enough to say that i've some knowledge about aws in interview?? And can these videos be followed in the same order of upload?

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hi @youtubecurious9000! 👋 To get a good foundation for AWS, you're probably better going with a full course. I have one for AWS Cloud Practitioner on Udemy (www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-master-aws-fundamentals/), but there are lots of others out there too. The videos here on the channel aren't really sequenced in a way that builds on previous concepts so it could seem a little disjointed. Hope that helps, and good luck!! 💪🤓

[@MG-Musty]

Am the first, thank you great tutorial.

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Wow...I don't think anyone has claimed "first" in one of my comments before. I guess this is how I know I've made it?? 😄 Thanks for watching! 🙏🌟🤓

[@MG-Musty]

@@TinyTechnicalTutorials Trust am your great fan. I have been on your videos for a while 😊 today I needed to say it! 😁

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Oh, thanks so much for saying it, Mustapha!! Comments like this always make my day! 😊🌟🙏

[@MG-Musty]

@@TinyTechnicalTutorials just keep up the good work and I wanted to say this as a compliment "I do like you voice" 😁😁😁 No offense 🤗

[@theone3746]

Could you do one ith a custom application? When I tried it I would get an error message. I dont remeber what it said but I could never find a solution so I stoppped using it.

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Yes, definitely! I'll add this to my list! 👍😊

[@alikazan2330]

Will this work if I wanted to host a flask application?

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Yep! I've actually used Flask myself before. 🤓

[@greenjb425]

Hi, great video. I follow your video exactly, however in the end when clicking the domain link, it tells me the site can't be reached. Any idea why and how to fix this? thanks :)

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Thanks for watching, @greenjb425! 🤓🙏 Hmmm...not sure I've seen this before. I wonder if it wasn't quite done deploying? Any luck with getting it to load?

[@greenjb425]

@@TinyTechnicalTutorials Nope, it seems to be an issue with my instances. The error says "Command failed on instance. Return code: 1 Output: Engine execution has encountered an error.. Instance deployment failed" I’ve tried to check instances, get logs, remake environment, troubleshooting guides etc. any idea what this is about?

[@kabilan-mj8di]

ECS task stopped due to: Essential container in task exited. Iam getting this error

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Maybe this will help? www.padok.fr/en/blog/essential-container-error-ecs

[@Mrsilakiyarajkumar]

Hi amber please give ecs tutorial in new interface

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hi @Mrsilakiyarajkumar! 👋 You're in luck! I have a video for that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bme8pGOCo7KGpLs. Hope it helps!

[@rohansharma141]

hey, thanks for this video. I am always getting this error: "The instance profile aws-elasticbeanstalk-ec2-role associated with the environment does not exist" and I am not able to select any EC2 instance profile on the "Service Access" section. please help!

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hi Rohan! 👋 Thanks for watching, and sorry for the slow response! Were you able to sort this out? If not, maybe this will help? www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/13f2jdg/error_the_instance_profile/

[@rohansharma141]

@@TinyTechnicalTutorials thanks. I will try this. I tried something similar, created instance profile. But it wasn't showing up while setting up the beanstalk instance. However, i will check this and get back. Thanks !

[@shashanksharma7747]

​@@rohansharma141 same problem comes to me even I defined this but in drop down nothing show for ec2 role

[@tomscall3811]

What if you have an AWS Dynamo DB and an AWS S3 bucket integrated in your Nodejs app? That's when it gets interesting. Do you need additional code for your app, as with Lambda. I have not yet been able to get my app to run on EB. Do you have an approach? Thank you very much!

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hi Tom! 👋 Ooh, interesting! Elastic Beanstalk automatically creates an S3 bucket when you create an environment, so in theory, that part is "easy: docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/AWSHowTo.S3.html. I'm finding very little about using EB and Lambda, which tells me it's probably not very straightforward. 😊 The official AWS page about integrating with AWS services doesn't list Lambda at all: docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/AWSHowTo.html. This is really all I can find: stackoverflow.com/questions/62313205/best-way-to-integrate-elastic-beanstalk-with-aws-lambda-in-python. If you're able to figure something out, feel free to report back here. I'm curious myself!

[@tomscall3811]

@@TinyTechnicalTutorials I do.

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hey again Tom! Just happened across this page with some pretty robust projects (at the bottom) that integrate a bunch of different technologies/services: docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/tutorials.html. In case it's helpful! 🤓

[@tomscall3811]

Many thanks for your efforts. I can report that I got my app running on EB. The good thing is. The code for the connection to DynamoDB and the S3 bucket can remain as it is. So it does not have to be adapted for EB. Just as the code works locally, it also works on EB. The folder "node_modules" and "package-lock.json" must not be uploaded. EB creates these files using the package.json.

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Oh, excellent! Thanks for the update, and glad you were able to get it working! 💪🔥

[@legallyinsane205]

ERROR The instance profile aws-elasticbeanstalk-ec2-role associated with the environment does not exist i get this error. I followed your video

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Maybe this will help? stackoverflow.com/questions/76626720/the-instance-profile-associated-with-the-environment-does-not-exist

[@Mrsilakiyarajkumar]

Hi we can use new user role

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

You'll need a service role so Elastic Beanstalk has the permissions it needs. I already had a role created when I did the video, but if you don't, then go ahead and create a new one. 😊

[@Mrsilakiyarajkumar]

@@TinyTechnicalTutorials thanks please create ecs, eks, ecr in new interface

[@SanthoshKumar-kg2mk]

how to push django + mysql backend folder i push i got error this ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Server_Side.wsgi'

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hmmmm...I haven't used Django with Elastic Beanstalk before, but maybe this will help? stackoverflow.com/questions/67789342/how-to-fix-django-modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-application-on-aws

[@dudley0007]

👍

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Thank you! 🤓🙏🌟

[@peterkyle_0125]

I encounter really painful Environment must have instance profile associated with it errors ,AWS console just sucks so bad

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

😕

[@peterkyle_0125]

@TinyTechnicalTutorials I ended up using an EC2 with Docker,would love to see how to deal with IAM roles that caused this.

[@amitkrmandal9974]

Hello Ma'am I am Amit From India . Please make SAML And openID Video in Deeply.

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hi Amit! I'll add these to my list for future videos. Thanks for the suggestions! 😊

[@amitkrmandal9974]

@@TinyTechnicalTutorials Thank you ma'am. God bless you.

[@DarionDAnjou]

June 2, 2024 11:23:59 (UTC-4) INFO Deleting SNS topic for environment PythonFlask-env. June 2, 2024 11:23:58 (UTC-4) ERROR Failed to launch environment. June 2, 2024 11:23:58 (UTC-4) ERROR The instance profile aws-elasticbeanstalk-ec2-role associated with the environment does not exist. June 2, 2024 11:20:50 (UTC-4) INFO Using elasticbeanstalk-us-east-2-671397664028 as Amazon S3 storage bucket for environment data. June 2, 2024 11:20:47 (UTC-4) INFO createEnvironment is starting.

[@DarionDAnjou]

this is the error i keep getting and i'm pretty sure it's because on the Configure Service Access step it never has an EC2 instance profile in the dropdown. Whether I click Create and use new service role or Use an existing service role, either way that dropdown is always empty and nothing comes up in the search to fill it either. Anyone else face this issue?

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hi Darion! 👋 Apologies for the VERY slow response. Were you able to sort this out? If so, I'd be curious what the solution was. I haven't come across this myself.

[@eduardosepulvedaherrera6669]

Creo que deberias implementar algo mas real, esto es un debo, cualquiera lo puede serguir sin ver el tutorial

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Thanks for the suggestion, Eduardo! 👍😊

[@sebasgt]

This video is useless, "just use all defaults"

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Oh no, not a useless video! 😢