Amazon Releases Elastic Beanstalk!... What? • Hacker News Board

bartman wrote: post #5

zachster wrote: post #2

I'm so impatient! From: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/gs... AWS Elastic Beanstalk enables developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud without having to worry about the infrastructure that runs those applications. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is designed to reduce management complexity without restricting choice or control. You simply upload your application and AWS Elast…

Applications must be written in Java (or anything you can put into a .war and make Tomcat run) [1] [1] http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/gs...

That includes both lift and clojure. Not too bad.

Re: Amazon Releases Elastic Beanstalk!... What?

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Post by schtono » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 8:40 AM UTC

Is it only me to confuse this with beanstalkd (opensource queuing service) in the first place?

Re: Amazon Releases Elastic Beanstalk!... What?

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Post by vegai » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 9:03 AM UTC

axomhacker wrote: post #13

kennethh wrote: post #10

Anyone found out anything about prices? Would be great with something that competed with Google App engine.

You don't pay anything extra for Elastic Beanstalk (you pay for whatever underlying services you use - EC2/S3/SDB/RDS/SQS/SNS etc.) Edit: paredit :)

Is it so that EB automatically provisions new services underneath it? Isn't that a bit of a risk?

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Post by alnayyir » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 9:44 AM UTC

vegai wrote: post #16

axomhacker wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't pay anything extra for Elastic Beanstalk (you pay for whatever underlying services you use - EC2/S3/SDB/RDS/SQS/SNS etc.) Edit: paredit :)

Is it so that EB automatically provisions new services underneath it? Isn't that a bit of a risk?

Pay-by-use has always been a risk and people have been using the API + third party libs to automatically provision resources for some time now.

Nothing new here, except that they're squeezing Heroku and GAE now.

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Post by irfn » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 10:06 AM UTC

schtono wrote: post #15

Is it only me to confuse this with beanstalkd (opensource queuing service) in the first place?

same here. the name had me confused for a moment.

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Post by riffraff » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 10:09 AM UTC

the beanstalk programming model: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/01/aws-beanstalk-programming...

This is pretty cool, but for people targeting it because of no-hassle infiniscale, it must be noted that you either use SimpleDB or good old MySQL for storage.

So AppEngine is still winner in that area, imvho, but it's great to see competition.

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Post by RiderOfGiraffes » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 11:15 AM UTC

Just to assist with cross-referencing, there's another, slightly more recent discussion of this here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2119104