Difference between Amazon EC2 and AWS Elastic Beanstalk

First off, EC2 and Elastic Compute Cloud are the same thing. Next, AWS encompasses the range of Web Services that includes EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk. It also includes many others such as S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and all the others. EC2 EC2 is Amazon’s service that allows you to create a server (AWS calls these instances) in the AWS cloud. You pay … Read more

What is the difference between Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation for a .NET project?

They’re actually pretty different. Elastic Beanstalk is intended to make developers’ lives easier. CloudFormation is intended to make systems engineers’ lives easier. Elastic Beanstalk is a PaaS-like layer on top of AWS’s IaaS services which abstracts away the underlying EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancers, auto-scaling groups, etc. This makes it a lot easier for developers, … Read more