Elastic Beanstalk

Handles AWS Elastic Beanstalk deployments when you want AWS to manage the operational lifecycle instead of defining ECS tasks or Kubernetes configs yourself. It's the Heroku alternative on AWS: you give it code, it provisions load balancers, scales instances, applies patches, and handles health checks ongoing. Covers both web server and worker environments, defaults to CLI orchestration but can generate CDK or Terraform if your project already uses them. The skill distinguishes when to use EB versus serverless or container orchestration, which matters because the choice affects who owns operational decisions long term. Good fit when you're migrating off Heroku or just don't want to think about instance management after initial deployment.

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last updated: Jun 11, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add awslabs/agent-plugins --skill elastic-beanstalk --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Elastic Beanstalk

Deploy applications to production on AWS with full lifecycle management. Elastic Beanstalk is an application management service: the user provides application code or a container image, AWS manages everything underneath (deployment, scaling, patching, monitoring, health response).

There are two modes, and the choice determines every setting that follows. Standard runs the application on Amazon EC2; Cluster runs a container on a managed Amazon EKS Auto Mode cluster. See Choose the Mode.

When to Use

Elastic Beanstalk is the right choice when:

User explicitly asks for Elastic Beanstalk, EB, or a managed application platform
User says "don't want to manage servers", "managed patching", or "Heroku-like"
User is migrating from Heroku, Render, or Railway
User wants AWS to manage ongoing operational lifecycle (patching, scaling, health monitoring, rollback, deployments) after initial setup
App is a web framework, API, or background worker on a standard runtime and the user signals low infrastructure involvement

Elastic Beanstalk is NOT the right choice when:

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