AWS Elastic Beanstalk Interview Questions Flashcards
Whether you are a beginner or have gained some experience in AWS, you may be asked one or more Elastic Beanstalk based AWS interview questions in the interview. So, this section is focused on the best AWS interview questions based on Elastic Beanstalk. Keep the reading on to get an answer to the top AWS interview questions.
What is Elastic Beanstalk?
Elastic Beanstalk provides the basic services which help in the creation of Environment. It also provides services like managing the application environments which include the creation of logs, health, and monitoring, etc.
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Mention few benefits of the elastic beanstalk.
The Beanstalk is easy for beginners and most flexible. Deployment of the application on AWS is easy. Various tools like Visual Studio are used to upload the applications. The deployment details of capacity monitoring and auto-scaling can be easily managed by AWS Beanstalk.
Demand Scaling: The application can be auto-scaled which helps in the handling of workload or traffic while minimizing the cost for the application.
Control over Tools: Tools and resources like Amazon EC2 instance type could be easily controlled.
Best productivity and security features: Security and configuration of servers, management of the database, firewalls are some features provided by AWS EBS.
Mention some of the advantages of AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Some of the benefits of AWS EBS are as follows:
- EBS is economical with no hidden costs. You will pay what you will use.
- The AWS management console can be accessed within an hour with its fast access.
- IT supports languages like Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, etc.
- AWS EBS builds the setup and spectators the AWS service for the creation of web services.
Mention some of the disadvantages of AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Some of the demerits of using AWS Beanstalk are:
If there is a deployment failure then no notification is shown. So further steps also are full of deployment failures.
If you terminate the instance or recover the EBS, it won’t work.
There is no information on new stack update though it updates itself regularly.
For just two front-end server deployment process can take up to 15 minutes also.
What are the operating systems used by Elastic Beanstalk?
AWS Beanstalk requires a stable, high-performance, secure environment for execution for Amazon EC2 cloud computing. So there are two EMI’s which are maintained by AWS. Amazon Linux AMI and Windows Server 2012 R2 AMI are two OS which runs Amazon Elastic Beanstalk.
How to make any application private?
In myapp.elasticbeanstalk.com the application is public by default. Amazon VPC should be used to make the virtual network private. Specific security group rules are also there to make the application private.
