Builders Online Series

Deploy your first web application in minutes

Gabe Hollombe
Senior Developer Advocate,
Amazon Web Services

@gabehollombe

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Great ways to get started with deploying
your web apps on AWS

• Static websites & front end apps

• Virtual Private Servers
• Fully managed application and database servers

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AWS Amplify Console
Host your static websites and
front end app on AWS in just a few clicks

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AWS Amplify Console is great for static content
Perfect for static websites, or serverless web apps

PWAs offer native app-like performance, work Use static site generators (SSG) like Gatsby, Add dynamic functionality to your static web
offline, support push notifications, and can be Hugo, or Jekyll to publish a blog. SSGs perform app using GraphQL or REST APIs. Use AWS
updated over-the-air. Use AWS Amplify to faster than traditional websites. Deploy SSGs Amplify Console to deploy your front end and
deploy PWAs to mobile devices. with AWS Amplify from the AWS console. backend in a single workflow.

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AWS Amplify Console makes CI/CD easy
Powerful CI/CD features

Connect your repository to 'git push' changes to All deployments either roll out successfully or Work on new features without impacting
your frontend and backend in a single fail without requiring maintenance windows. production. Create branch deployments linked
workflow. to each feature branch.

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AWS Amplify Console gives you fast and easy hosting
Worldwide hosting, on our domain or yours

Your app is served via Amazon's reliable Set up custom domains managed in Amazon Share yet-to-be released features with internal
content delivery network with hundreds of Route 53 with a single click, plus get a free stakeholders by setting a username and
points of presence around the world. HTTPS certificate. password.

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What people are saying: AWS Amplify Console
“I'm a huge fan of Amplify hosting, it's AWS best kept secret.”

“Been using @AWSAmplify for the last couple of months on a personal projects and I
couldn't be more happier. The DX only keeps getting better and the Amplify Console is
beautiful.”

“Big shout out to #AWS #Amplify for making #continuous #delivery and #release of
mobile and web #apps so freaking easy it’s unbelievable. Highly recommended.”

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AWS Amplify Console – How it works
How it works

1. Connect your repository 2. Configure build settings 3. Deploy your app

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Amazon Lightsail
Virtual servers, storage, databases,
and networking for a low, predictable price

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Amazon Lightsail: Cloud made easy

Launch Manage Grow

Get started in minutes Intuitive global console Easily scale your ideas

Low, predictable pricing Robust API and CLI Access other AWS services

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When to choose Amazon Lightsail?

Amazon Lightsail Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

(Amazon EC2)
Small-scale, multi-tier apps Large, multi-tier applications
(several dozens of instances)
Websites
Web apps Anything requiring instances that are workload-
optimized, highly configurable, or resource-
Testing environment
intensive
E.g., big data analytics, high performance computing, scientific computing
Line-of-business software

Advanced networking

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Amazon Lightsail is great for…
Simple web applications
Pre-configured development stacks for LAMP, Nginx, MEAN, and Node.js.

Websites
Pre-configured click-to-install applications including WordPress, Magento, Plesk, and Joomla.

Business software
Quickly launch your line-of-business software like file sharing and storage, backups, financial
and accounting software, and more.

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What people are saying: Amazon Lightsail
“Finally tried AWS Ligthsail [sic]. Lightsail has the friendly fixed pricing to start small and fast. Plans starting at
$3.50 per month! Also, many easy one click-to-launch OS and Apps, e.g. Gitlabs CE.”

“#AWS #Lightsail great VPS on Amazon Web service. Plans starting at $3.50 per month #AWSome”

“If you are using AWS EC2 instances for your workload and want to reduce the monthly bill, consider using AWS
Lightsail. It can reduce the cost significantly compared to similar on-demand EC2 instance configuration.

Lightsail provides you with -

* Virtual Server
* Managed Databases - MySQL and PostgreSQL
* Load Balancers
* High Availability Storage - SSD backed
* Powerful API - to configure your servers from console, API or CLI.”
- neelabh-tripathi-66411623

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Amazon Lightsail has many preconfigured templates
Operating Systems

Get your server

up and running in
minutes with click- Applications

to-install OS,
application, and
developer stacks
Stacks

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Upload your code and let AWS handle the
deployment, load balancing, and scaling

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Growing beyond a Virtual Private Server
How do I migrate my web application to the cloud?

…and design for high availability?

…and scale dynamically?

…and deploy new application versions safely?

…and keep my run-time updated?

…and keep my OS patched?

…and monitor application health?

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AWS has a lot of options
Compute: Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS),
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Lightsail, AWS Fargate

Storage: Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

Network: Classic Load Balancer, Application Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer,
Security Groups, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

Database: Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon DynamoDB,

Amazon Aurora

Management: AWS Auto Scaling, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Systems Manager,

Amazon CloudWatch

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But is there just one service I can use to host my
web application?

Yes
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk
A single service for web applications that automatically handles…

 Infrastructure provisioning  OS and runtime updates

 Auto scaling configurations  Application deployments
 Network and security configurations  Application health monitoring
 Load balancing configurations  Application analysis & debugging tools

… at no additional cost

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk runtime support

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

supports the most popular
runtimes for web applications,
as well as Docker images

AWS Elastic Beanstalk also

supports custom platforms
and custom images

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk platforms

Applications run on the Your app

AWS Elastic Beanstalk platform

HTTP Server

Elastic Beanstalk
managed by
12 different platform options Application Server
based on OS and runtime
Language Interpreter

Operating System
Ensures all of the components are
working seamlessly together EC2 Host

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What people are saying: AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Prezi moved two of its most critical back-end services to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, which
deploys and scales web applications and services automatically. This lets Prezi’s developers
worry less about managing infrastructure.
- AWS Prezi Case Study

“Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, the transformation to AWS was incredibly easy”
- Ron Rejwan, Cofounder, Jelly Button Games

“Elastic Beanstalk handles that extra demand, and when our demand goes down, our
environment scales down as well — we’re not stuck with datacenter equipment to
depreciate”
- Geoff Clitheroe, GeoNet Development Manager, GNS Science

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk workflows

Configure & provision Deploy Monitor & manage

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Options for deploying applications

All at once Immutable

Fastest. May result in small amount of Slower deployment that ensures your new
downtime. application version is deployed to new virtual
machines. Makes rollbacks quick and safe.
Rolling
Avoids downtime, minimizes reduced
availability. Slightly longer deploy times.
Traffic splitting
Canary testing deployments. Direct a portion
of traffic to the new application version while
Rolling with additional batch monitoring health.
Avoids any reduced availability. Longer
deployment times.

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Health monitoring

System level metrics

CPU utilization

Memory & disk usage

Service level metrics

Serving request (2xx)

Errors & failures (4xx, 5xx)

Latency

Application specific metrics

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Automated platform updates

Enabled by default

Applies latest OS and runtime

security patches, fixes, minor
updates

Configurable maintenance
windows

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Prefer the command line? Use the eb CLI!

Create your AWS Elastic Beanstalk app

$ eb init

Create the resources and launch the application

$ eb create

Deploy updates
$ eb deploy
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/eb-cli3.html

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Summary
Static website / App hosting Virtual Private Servers Managed application servers

AWS Amazon AWS

Amplify Console Lightsail Elastic Beanstalk

Global content delivery network Simple server setup Fast and simple to begin

Effortless CI / CD Click-to-launch OS & applications Automatic scaling built-in

Managed environments for many
Perfect for static websites and apps Plans starting at $3.50 per month popular platforms and languages

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Where to learn more
AWS AWS Amplify Console User Guide
Amplify Console https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/getting-started.html

Amazon Workshop: Deploying and Scaling Applications with Amazon Lightsail

Lightsail https://lightsailworkshop.com/

AWS AWS Elastic Beanstalk Getting Started Resources

Elastic Beanstalk https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/getting-started/

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Other options for web apps on AWS
Serverless

"Front door" for HTTP & Run code without provisioning The fastest and easiest way to
WebSocket APIs any servers develop web apps that scale.

Databases &
Storage
Fully managed relational databases Fast and flexible NoSQL database for MySQL / PostgreSQL compatible Store any amount of data from
MySQL/PostgreSQL/Oracle/ any scale. Serverless option available. database with 3 to 5x performance. anywhere. Great for uploads and
Microsoft SQL Server Serverless option available. static content.

Containers

Highly available, secure, and scalable Run containers without needing to Fully managed container Run Kubernetes on AWS without
load balancing. provision and manage servers. orchestration with deep AWS installing, operating, and maintaining
integration. your own Kubernetes control plane.

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Thank you
Gabe Hollombe
@gabehollombe

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