Elastic Beanstalk Quiz
An application team needs to quickly provision a development environment consisting of a web and database layer. Which of the following would be the quickest and most ideal way to get this setup in place?
A. CreateSpot Instances and install the Web and database components.
B. CreateReserved Instances and install the Web and database components.
C. UseAWS Lambda to create the web components and AWS RDS for the database layer.
D. Use Elastic Beanstalk to quickly provision the environment.
D. Use Elastic Beanstalk to quickly provision the environment.
AWS Documentation mentions the following:
With Elastic Beanstalk, you can quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. AWS Elastic Beanstalk reduces management complexity without restricting choice or control. You simply upload your application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring.
For more information on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, please refer to the URL below.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/Welcome.html
Option A is in. Amazon EC2 Spot instances are spare compute capacity in the AWS cloud available to you at steep discounts compared to On-Demand prices. Option B is in. A Reserved Instance is a reservation of resources and capacity, for either one or three years, for a particular Availability Zone within a region. Option C is in. AWS Lambda is a compute service that makes it easy for you to build applications that respond quickly to new information and not for provisioning a new environment.