What is the difference between EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk?

EC2 is Amazon’s service that allows you to create a server (AWS calls these instances) in the AWS cloud. You pay by the hour and only what you use. You can do whatever you want with this instance as well as launch n number of instances. Elastic Beanstalk is one layer of abstraction away from the EC2 layer.

What are the advantages of selecting Beanstalk vs EC2?

Advantages and Disadvantages of AWS Elastic Beanstalk Vs EC2:

AWS Service Advantages
Elastic Beanstalk 1. Integrates with a variety of AWS services 2. Easy deployment 3. Quick 4. Painless 5.Neatly Documented
EC2 1. Fast and reliable cloud servers 2. Scalable 3. Easily managed 4. Low costing 5. Auto-scaling

What is EC2 Container Service?

Amazon EC2 Container Service is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run distributed applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.

Is EC2 instance a container?

EC2 allows you to launch individual instances which you can use for pretty much whatever you like. ECS is a container service, which means it will launch instances that will be ready to launch container applications.

What is the difference between Elastic Beanstalk and elastic EC2?

Regardless of their similarities, there are significant contrasts between them, as well. The Elastic Beanstalk is essentially 1 layer of reflection away from that of the EC2 layer.

Does Elastic Beanstalk support multi-container-environments?

As of now, Elastic Beanstalk supports Multi-Container-Environments. That’s great because every microservice has its own application server inside a docker container. The next problem is scaling: I don’t know how the scaling mechanism works. For example: I have 5 docker containers in my Elastic Beanstalk Environment.

What is the difference between Beanstalk and Docker on EC2?

The difference is that for doing it on EC2 you will have to manage and monitor your containers all by yourself. So I guess for production environments you’ll have to have your own team for that, or else go with BeanStalk. Also better follow this Docker on Amazondocumentation.

What is the AWS EC2 container service?

Since “Amazon” and “scale” are like two sides of the same coin, it wasn’t much of a surprise when they created the AWS EC2 Container Service to handle the installation, operation, scaling and general cluster management for you. Container instances communicate with the ECS service through an “ECS agent.”