The document discusses different deployment strategies for applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk including all at once, rolling, rolling with additional batches, immutable, and blue-green deployments. It describes the advantages and disadvantages of each approach and how they differ in terms of deployment time, downtime, ability to rollback, and impact of failed deployments. Blue-green deployments are highlighted as providing minimal downtime and the ability to easily rollback by swapping the URL if needed.

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Use Elastic Beanstalk Blue-Green
Deployments to Reduce Downtime & Risk
Tim Freeman
Software Development Manager
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
D E V 3 3 0
Kam Mahant
Software Development Manager
AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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What the session will cover
• Introduction to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Overview of AWS Elastic Beanstalk deployment options
• Focus on Blue-Green deployments
• Q&A

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Running web applications on AWS
AWS has multiple services that enable you to run your application
including:
However, this leaves the selection, provisioning, configuration,
deployment, and management up to you
• EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, Lightsail, FargateCompute
• S3, EFSStorage
• CLB, ALB, NLB, Security Groups, VPCNetwork
• RDS, DynamoDB, AuroraDatabase
• Auto Scaling, CloudFormation, Systems ManagerManagement Tools

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk
The easiest way to get your applications up and running in minutes
Elastic Beanstalk is a managed service that automatically handles:
• Infrastructure provisioning
• Deployment
• Load balancing configurations
• Auto scaling configurations
• Network and security configurations
• Application level health monitoring
• Application analysis and debugging tools
There is no additional cost

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Platforms

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Deploying to production is hard
• Deployment time
• Downtime
• Reduced capacity
• Deployment failure
• Rollback time
• Cost

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Method Impact of failed deployment
Deploy
time
Zero
downtime
Rollback
process
Code
deployed to
All at Once Downtime  X Re-deploy Existing
instances
Rolling Single batch of instance will be out
of service. Any successfully deployed
instances prior to failure will be
running new application version
  Re-deploy Existing
instances
Rolling with
additional batch
Minimum if first batch of instance
fails, otherwise similar to Rolling
  Re-deploy New &
existing
instances
Immutable Minimal   Terminate
new instances
New
instances
Blue-Green
(Achieved using
two Environments)
Minimal   Swap URL New
instances
Application deployment strategies

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V1 V1 V1 V1
Deployment Option: All at once
Deployment Scenarios
• Fast rollout
• Downtime tolerant

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V1 V1 V1 V1
Deployment Option: All at once

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V2 V1 V2 V1 V2 V1 V2 V1
Deployment Option: All at once

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V2 V2 V2 V2
Deployment Option: All at once

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Deployment Option: All at once
Advantages
Disadvantages

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Deployment Option: Rolling
Deployment Scenarios

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V1 V1 V1 V1
Deployment Option: Rolling

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V2 V1 V2 V1
Deployment Option: Rolling
V1 V1

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V2 V2
Deployment Option: Rolling
V1 V1

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V2 V1 V2 V1
Deployment Option: Rolling
V2V2

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
Deployment Option: Rolling
V2 V2 V2 V2

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Deployment Option: Rolling
Advantages
Disadvantages

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V1 V1 V1 V1
Deployment Option: Rolling with additional batch
Deployment Scenarios

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
Deployment Option: Rolling with additional batch
V1 V1 V1 V1

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V1V1 V1V2 V2
Deployment Option: Rolling with additional batch
V1

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V2 V2
Deployment Option: Rolling with additional batch
V1V1 V1 V1

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V2 V1 V2 V1
Deployment Option: Rolling with additional batch
V2 V2 V1V1

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
Deployment Option: Rolling with additional batch
V2 V2 V1V1V2 V2

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
Deployment Option: Rolling with additional batch
V2 V2 V2 V2 V1V1

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
Deployment Option: Rolling with additional batch
V2 V2 V2 V2

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Deployment Option: Rolling with additional batch
Advantages
Disadvantages

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V1 V1 V1 V1
Deployment Option: Immutable
Deployment Scenarios

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
Deployment Option: Immutable
V1 V1 V1 V1

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V1 V1 V1 V1
Temporary Auto Scaling Group
V2
Deployment Option: Immutable

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V1 V1 V1 V1
Temporary Auto Scaling Group
Deployment Option: Immutable
V2

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
Temporary Auto Scaling Group
V2 V2 V2
Deployment Option: Immutable
V2V1 V1 V1 V1

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V1 V1 V1 V1
Temporary Auto Scaling Group
V2 V2 V2
Deployment Option: Immutable
V2

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V1 V1 V1 V1 V2 V2 V2 V2
Deployment Option: Immutable

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Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V1 V1 V1 V1 V2 V2 V2 V2
Deployment Option: Immutable
Auto Scaling Group

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Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
Deployment Option: Immutable
V2 V2 V2 V2

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Deployment Option: Immutable
Advantages
Disadvantages

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V1 V1 V1 V1
V1 V1 V1 V1
Blue-Green Deployments
Deployment Scenarios

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V1 V1 V1 V1
V1 V1 V1 V1
Blue-Green Deployments
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com

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V1 V1 V1 V1
V1 V1 V1 V1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
Blue-Green Deployments

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V1 V1 V1 V1
V1 V1 V1 V1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
Blue-Green Deployments

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V1 V1 V1 V1
V1 V1 V1 V1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
Blue-Green Deployments

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Elastic Beanstalk Environment
Auto Scaling Group
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V1 V1 V1 V1
Blue-Green Step 1: Clone the active environment

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Elastic Beanstalk Environment
Auto Scaling Group
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V1 V1 V1 V1
V1 V1 V1 V1
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
Auto Scaling Group
Myapp_test.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V1 V1 V1
Cloned environment
Blue-Green Step 1: Clone the active environment
V1

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Elastic Beanstalk Environment
Auto Scaling Group
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V1 V1 V1 V1
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
Auto Scaling Group
Myapp_test.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
Cloned environment
V2 V2 V2
Blue-Green Step 2: Deploy and test changes
V2V1 V1 V1 V1

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Elastic Beanstalk Environment
Auto Scaling Group
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V1 V1 V1 V1
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
Auto Scaling Group
Myapp_test.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
Cloned environment
V2 V2 V2V1 V1 V1 V1 V2
Blue-Green Step 3: Swap environment URL

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Blue-Green Step 3: Swap environment URL

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V1
Blue-Green Deployments
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
Auto Scaling Group
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
V2 V2 V2 V2

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V1
Blue-Green Deployments
Advantages
Disadvantages

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Method Impact of failed deployment
Deploy
time
Zero
downtime
Rollback
process
Code
deployed to
All at Once Downtime  X Re-deploy Existing
instances
Rolling Single batch of instance will be out
of service. Any successfully deployed
instances prior to failure will be
running new application version
  Re-deploy Existing
instances
Rolling with
additional batch
Minimum if first batch of instance
fails, otherwise similar to Rolling
  Re-deploy New &
existing
instances
Immutable Minimal   Terminate
new instances
New
instances
Blue-Green
(Achieved using
two Environments)
Minimal   Swap URL New
instances
Application deployment strategies

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Elastic Beanstalk deployment options

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Additional Resources
https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/blue-green-deployment/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/routing-policy.html

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56. Thank you!
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Tim Freeman
Software Development Manager
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Kam Mahant
Software Development Manager
AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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