Document history - Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
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Document history

The following table describes the important changes to the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide since April 2024.

ChangeDescriptionDate

Revised topic: What is Amazon Elastic Beanstalk?

New architecture diagram and condensed introduction for clarity.

June 5, 2025

Revised topic: Setting up the EB CLI

Condensed and focused installation instructions.

June 5, 2025

Revised topic: PHP Quickstart

Added a step to update and redeploy the application and improved some instructions.

June 5, 2025

Revised topic: Getting started tutorial

Streamlined the Getting Started tutorial for clarity and quicker onboarding.

June 5, 2025

Reorganized content

Reorganized content structure to highlight essential information and improve discoverability.

June 5, 2025

New topic: Managing EC2 security groups

Elastic Beanstalk adds support to opt out environment from default EC2 security group.

April 30, 2025

New topic: Migrating IIS applications to Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk adds feature to migrate your Windows IIS applications to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk.

April 18, 2025

New topic: Using Elastic Beanstalk with Amazon Secrets Manager and Amazon Systems Manager Parameter Store

Elastic Beanstalk adds support to reference Amazon Secrets Manager secrets and Amazon Systems Manager Parameter Store parameters with environment variables.

March 31, 2025

Amazon managed policy updates for AWSElasticBeanstalkManagedUpdatesCustomerRolePolicy .

Updated permissions in Amazon managed policy.

February 27, 2025

Launch configurations deprecated in favor of launch templates

Revised this topic to explain how Elastic Beanstalk environments are affected by Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling deprecation of launch configurations in favor of launch templates. We also revised other content related to launch configurations and launch templates.

January 23, 2025

New topic: Using EC2 Fast Launch with Windows platform branches

Elastic Beanstalk Windows platform releases include base AMIs with EC2 Fast Launch enabled.

January 22, 2025

New topic: Spot Instance allocation strategy

Elastic Beanstalk adds support for Spot Allocation Strategy configuration during environment creation.

January 15, 2025

AdministratorAccess-AWSElasticBeanstalkAmazon managed policy

Updated permissions in Amazon managed policy.

December 11, 2024

Recommendations for Graviton arm64 first wave environments to Archived content chapter

Moved EB Recommendations for Graviton arm64 first wave environments to Archived content chapter

October 5, 2024

Launch templates

New topic: Launch templates. This topic explains how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is phasing out launch configurations in favor of launch templates.

October 1, 2024

QuickStartfor Python

New topic: QuickStart for Python

September 24, 2024

Required Amazon S3 bucket permissions for restrictive VPC endpoint policies

New topic: Required Amazon S3 bucket permissions for restrictive VPC endpoint policies

September 18, 2024

QuickStart for Java on Tomcat

New topic: QuickStart for Java JSP application running on Tomcat

September 12, 2024

QuickStart for Java

New topic: QuickStart for Java

September 12, 2024

Using the Amazon EC2 Systems Manager for Docker private repositories

Reinstated topic: Using the Amazon EC2 Systems Manager for Docker private repositories. Replaces topic Using the Amazon Secrets Manager for Docker private repositories until Elastic Beanstalk / SSM integration is supported.

September 8, 2024

EB CLI 2.6 (retired) to Archived content chapter

Moved EB CLI 2.6 (retired) to Archived content chapter

August 15, 2024

EB API (retired) to Archived content chapter

Moved EB API (retired) to Archived content chapter

August 15, 2024

Deploying Elastic Beanstalk applications from Docker containers

Updated and reorganized: Deploying Elastic Beanstalk applications from Docker containers

August 15, 2024

Archived content

New chapter: Archived content

August 15, 2024

QuickStart for Windows ASP.NET

New topic: QuickStart for Windows ASP.NET

July 5, 2024

QuickStart for .NET Core on Windows

New topic: QuickStart for .NET Core on Windows

June 28, 2024

QuickStart for Docker

New topic: QuickStart for Docker

June 19, 2024

Preventing cross-environment Amazon S3 bucket access

New topic: Preventing cross-environment Amazon S3 bucket access

June 12, 2024

QuickStart for .NET Core on Linux

New topic: QuickStart for .NET Core on Windows

May 28, 2024

QuickStart for PHP

New topic: QuickStart for PHP

May 10, 2024

QuickStart for Node.js

New topic: QuickStart for Node.js

May 5, 2024

QuickStart for Go

New topic: QuickStart for Go

May 5, 2024

Elastic Beanstalk platform release schedule

Added new topic that includes a schedule of Upcoming platform branch releases. Moved Retiring platform branch schedule and Retired platform branch history to this topic.

May 1, 2024

AWSElasticBeanstalkRoleCoreAmazon managed policy

Updated permissions in Amazon managed policy.

April 30, 2024

AWSElasticBeanstalkManagedUpdatesServiceRolePolicyAmazon managed policy

Updated permissions in Amazon managed policy.

April 30, 2024

AWSElasticBeanstalkManagedUpdatesInternalServiceRolePolicyAmazon managed policy

Updated permissions in Amazon managed policy.

April 30, 2024

AWSElasticBeanstalkMaintenanceAmazon managed policy

Updated permissions in Amazon managed policy.

April 30, 2024

AWSElasticBeanstalkInternalMaintenanceRolePolicyAmazon managed policy

Updated permissions in Amazon managed policy.

April 30, 2024