What Should You Know About Deploying A Rails App On AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
Amit Ashwini
October 18, 2017
It feels like everyone today wants to build the next great scalable web application. Amazon Web Services has emerged as one of the leading cloud providers when it comes to deploying and scaling our web applications. If you’re new to AWS, it can seem overwhelming. Today, there are over 40 different AWS services, and many concepts to consider when building your application. However, AWS provides helpful guides, excellent documentation on each of their services, white papers, reference architectures for common apps and more. Now, coming to Rails, the idea of adopting it, wasn't given weight merely because of its technicalities, but rather because it is an ecosystem developed for startups. Thanks to its big-name users like Twitter, Groupon, and Hulu and all the Agilists hyping Rails, has sparked the need for services like Heroku, AWS, New Relic, and Github, allowing Rails to scale.
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