Three years ago, I wrote a blog on how to Consolidate Elastic Beanstalk ELB. If you have not done it yet, then you don't need to do it in that way now. As just a couple days ago, AWS finally announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports sharing of an Application Load Balancer among Elastic Beanstalk … Continue reading AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports sharing ALB (finally)
Tag: Elastic Beanstalk
Huggies – AWS Elastic Beanstalk Automation Tool
Huggies is a side project that I started when working for the NAPI team which pronounced as ['næpɪ], and that is why I named it as Huggies 😉 The team's environments are mostly on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. In general, Elastic Beanstalk is a good tool as it abstracts the complexicity of managing Elastic Load Balancer, … Continue reading Huggies – AWS Elastic Beanstalk Automation Tool
Hack ‘Environment Type’ in Elastic Beanstalk
In the Elastic Beanstalk console, you get two options for your environment type: Load balancing + auto scaling or Single instance. If it make you think Single instance is just a single instance, then you are cheated. It is actually a auto scaling group as well, but with Min:1 Max:1 setting. And Elastic Beanstalk creates … Continue reading Hack ‘Environment Type’ in Elastic Beanstalk
Consolidate Elastic Beanstalk ELB
Our nonprod environments have quite a lot Elastic Beanstalk environments. Most of them serves low traffics .Each ELB roughly costs $20 per month (no matter you use it or not) + data cost. From the cost perspective, I don't see there is a value that each of them needs a dedicated ELB (which was created by Elastic … Continue reading Consolidate Elastic Beanstalk ELB
Hourly Intermittent Elastic Beanstalk Service Interruption
We noticed that one of our Java applications that is deployed on Elastic Beanstalk has hourly service interruption. Each outage only lasts for about 40 - 60 seconds. By looking at the CloudWatch, the ELB has intermittent 5xx errors every one hour, like 09:01, 10:01, 11:01 ... After some investigations, I found it out that it … Continue reading Hourly Intermittent Elastic Beanstalk Service Interruption
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