This document discusses how to scale applications using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. It begins with an introduction to AWS and Elastic Beanstalk. It then covers how to deploy applications using Elastic Beanstalk, including creating environments and configuring auto scaling. It also discusses how to implement load balancing across availability zones and regions using Elastic Load Balancing and Route 53 for fault tolerance and high availability. The key takeaways are that Elastic Beanstalk makes deploying and scaling applications on AWS easy, and cross-zone and cross-region configurations can improve availability.

1. AWS: SCALING WITH ELASTIC
BEANSTALK
AN LE PHU NGUYEN
DECEMBER 2OTH, 2014

2. $ WHOAMI
Nguyễn Lê Phú An
Senior Software Engineer
R&D, KMS Technology Inc.
anlpnguyen@kms-technology.com
AWS: SCALING WITH ELASTIC BEANSTALK
An Nguyen

3. LET’S DESCRIBE YOURSELF
What is AWS?
I heard that before
I’m working on that
I’m a guru!
AWS: SCALING WITH ELASTIC BEANSTALK

4. WHAT IS AWS?
• Amazon Web Services
• Provides cloud computing infrastructure
• Started with hosting services and then…
AWS: SCALING WITH ELASTIC BEANSTALK

5. AGENDA
AWS: SCALING WITH ELASTIC BEANSTALK
Elastic Beanstalk
Deployment & Scaling
Zonal & Regional Load Balancing
Takeaways

6. What is Elastic Beanstalk?
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7. ELASTIC BEANSTALK
ELASTIC BEANSTALK

8. ELASTIC BEANSTALK
ELASTIC BEANSTALK
ElasticBeanstalk EC2 Instances
Elastic Load Balancer
Auto Scaling Group

9. EC2 – ELASTIC COMPUTE CLOUD
ELASTIC BEANSTALK

10. AUTO SCALING GROUP
ELASTIC BEANSTALK
• Scales EC2 instances up or down automatically with your condit

11. ELASTIC LOAD BALANCER
ELASTIC BEANSTALK
• Routes traffic across multiple instan
• Auto scaling
• Integrates to Security Group and SS

12. ELASTIC BEANSTALK
ELASTIC BEANSTALK
• EC2 Instances
• Auto Scaling Group
• Elastic Load Balancer
• Security Group
• DB

13. Deployment & Scaling
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14. FIRST STEPS
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15. CREATE ELASTIC BEANSTALK
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16. ZIP AND UPLOAD YOUR PROJECT
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17. CREATE DATABASE
DEPLOYMENT & SCALING

18. DEFINE ENVIROMENT
DEPLOYMENT & SCALING

19. MONITOR
DEPLOYMENT & SCALING

20. ALARM
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21. How about next deployment?
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22. NEXT DEPLOYMENT: AWS CLI
• Install AWS Command Line Interface
• Setup AWSDevTools
• git aws.config
• git aws.push (it will push the entire repo)
Updating the AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment staging-sample...
Environment update initiated successfully.
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Read more here: http://aws.amazon.com/code/6752709412171743

23. LOGGING
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24. How about scaling?
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25. HOW ABOUT SCALING?
• Configure Auto Scaling Group
• Define the trigger
• Let him do his job!
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26. SETUP AUTO SCALING
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27. SETUP SCALING TRIGGER
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28. DASHBOARD
DEPLOYMENT & SCALING

29. Elastic Beanstalk Setup Demo
DEPLOYMENT & SCALING

30. PRICING
• There is no additional charge for Elastic Beanstalk – you only pay for the
underlying AWS resources
• Try AWS free usage tier!
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31. SOME GOOD PRACTICES
• Make your app scalable first
– Share your static resources: video, image, css, js…
• S3, CloudFront are good candidates
– Share database and cache servers
• RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache
• Control auto scaling group to control your bill
– Limit Max instance number
– Add notification, at least when to Add/Remove
instance
– Adjust trigger frequently according your website’s
workload
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32. SHOULD I USE EB?
• Pros:
– Super easy to deploy
– Separate environments
– Integrate to other AWS services
– Good organization
• Cons:
– Quite slow deployment with large repo
– Be careful with auto scaling
– Hard to customize EC2 instances
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33. MORE…
• CloudWatch
– Monitor & Notification
• CloudFront
– Share web static resource (CDN)
• RDS, DynamoDB & ElastiCache
– Database & Cache
• S3
– File storage
• DB backup
• Deployment files
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34. Zonal & Regional load balancing
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35. REGIONS
ZONAL & REGIONAL LOAD BALANCING

36. AVAILABILITY ZONES
ZONAL & REGIONAL LOAD BALANCING

37. ZONAL LOAD BALANCING
ZONAL & REGIONAL LOAD BALANCING

38. ENABLE ZONAL LOAD BALANCING &
SCALING
ZONAL & REGIONAL LOAD BALANCING
Sounds good! Will it scale my databases, cache
services?
In Elastic Load Balancer
In Auto Scaling Group

39. How about regional load
balancing?
ZONAL & REGIONAL LOAD BALANCING

40. REGION LOAD BALANCING
ZONAL & REGIONAL LOAD BALANCING

41. ROUTE 53
ZONAL & REGIONAL LOAD BALANCING
• A Domain Name System (DNS)
• Connect user to services: EC2, S3,
Elastic Load Balancer, CloudFront
• Auto scale
• Health check mechanism
• DNS Failover

42. ROUTE 53
ZONAL & REGIONAL LOAD BALANCING

43. MORE…
• Database, cache replication
– Cross-zone
– Cross-region
• Route 53 configuration
– Latency based routing
– Geo DNS
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44. TAKEAWAYS
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45. TAKEAWAYS
• Elastic Beanstalk
– Combination of ELB, Auto Scaling Group, EC2 and
some services
– Auto Scale configuration
– Pros & Cons
• Cross-zone & Cross-region
– Enable cross-zone load balancing & scaling
– Use Route 53 to handle cross-region load
balancing
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46. Q&A
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47. THANK YOU
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