Seamless Production Deployment with Elastic Beanstalk

This article discusses different strategies for deploying applications to production environments using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, a managed compute service.

Specifically, the article covers:

• All at once deployment (quick but with downtime)
• Rolling deployment (no downtime but reduced capacity during deployment)
• Rolling with additional batch deployment (no downtime or reduced capacity, but more expensive)
• Immutable deployment (zero downtime, new instances created and old ones terminated)
• Traffic splitting deployment (zero downtime, canary testing new version with partial traffic)
• Blue/green deployment (zero downtime, new version deployed to separate environment and URLs swapped)
• Conclusion: Evaluate the deployment strategies based on your priorities for downtime, deployment time, impact of failure, and rollback process