Using Elastic Beanstalk with other Amazon services - Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
Architectural overview
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Using Elastic Beanstalk with other Amazon services

The topics in this section describe the many ways you can use additional Amazon services with your Elastic Beanstalk application. To implement your application's environments, Elastic Beanstalk manages resources of other Amazon services or uses their functionality. In addition, Elastic Beanstalk integrates with Amazon services that it doesn't use directly as part of your environments.

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Architectural overview

The following diagram illustrates an example architecture of Elastic Beanstalk across multiple Availability Zones working with other Amazon products such as Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

Architecture diagram of Elastic Beanstalk working with other Amazon products across multiple Availability Zones.

To plan for fault-tolerance, it is advisable to have N+1 Amazon EC2 instances and spread your instances across multiple Availability Zones. In the unlikely case that one Availability Zone goes down, you will still have your other Amazon EC2 instances running in another Availability Zone. You can adjust Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to allow for a minimum number of instances as well as multiple Availability Zones. For instructions on how to do this, see Auto Scaling your Elastic Beanstalk environment instances. For more information about building fault-tolerant applications, go to Building Fault-Tolerant Applications on Amazon.

The following sections discuss in more detail integration with Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon DynamoDB Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon RDS, Amazon Route 53, Amazon Simple Storage Service, Amazon VPC , and IAM.