elastic-beanstalk

The Skill orchestrates the AWS CLI workflow: create a storage location, create the application, zip and upload the source bundle, create an application version, then create the environment with option settings. It resolves the solution stack automatically via list-available-solution-stacks.

Elastic Beanstalk is an application management service where AWS operates the environment after you provide code. ECS and EKS are infrastructure management services where you define and operate the deployment. Lambda suits explicitly serverless, event-driven workloads with stateless functions.

Yes. Worker environments receive work from an SQS queue managed by Elastic Beanstalk. The EB SQS daemon sends HTTP POST requests to your application endpoint, so no SQS SDK integration is required. Scheduled jobs are supported via cron.yaml.

Audit Heroku patterns: map DATABASE_URL to a separately provisioned RDS instance, move add-on credentials to Secrets Manager, keep your Procfile as-is, and set the PORT environment property if your app does not listen on port 5000. Replace explicit AWS credentials with an IAM instance profile.

AL2023 platforms use nginx as a reverse proxy forwarding to port 5000 by default. If your application listens on a different port, set the PORT environment property to match. A port mismatch between nginx and the application causes 502 errors.

Elastic Beanstalk itself has no service fee; you pay only for underlying AWS resources. A dev web environment with one t3.small and an ALB costs roughly $35-40 per month, while a production multi-AZ setup with four t3.medium instances runs about $150-200.