15 engineers on Hacker News describe using AWS Elastic Beanstalk first-hand: 4 endorse it, 4 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“every deploy is a full VM boot which takes a long time”
regret · production · whs · 2025-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If you know it you can, as we found, go very far with it, powering a core feature of a very large web property”
mixed · production · 7 yr · grogenaut · 2024-06-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Advantage is EB has a somewhat friendly UI... Disadvantages are the docker support is an afterthought”
mixed · production · everfrustrated · 2022-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“ElasticBeanstalk was another one, fine-ish for simplistic things but problematic with the smallest customization, also lots of undocumented and undebuggable quirks”
regret · production · ratww · 2021-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Notion (my employer) was 100% Elastic Beanstalk until about a month ago... We migrated once our 1200 box cluster started stalling deploys randomly”
regret · production · jitl · 2021-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have used Elastic Beanstalk in real production apps for years.”
regret · production · runako · 2021-03-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have two redundant instances and can easily scale up or down even on schedule with zero extra code.”
endorse · production · ramraj07 · 2020-09-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have had 100% uptime (based on external monitoring) since we moved to Elastic Beanstalk.”
endorse · production · timewarrior · 2017-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Looks like we are going back to Elastic Beanstalk, which is pretty good, it just has servers. But it works.”
endorse · production · cargomaster · 2015-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Getting EBS to work with the private docker registry was a bit of a pain because documentation was lacking”
mixed · production · philip1209 · 2015-04-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using it for several months now without a single hiccup. It's Java only, but it just works”
endorse · production · 0.5 yr · prib · 2011-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run of Elastic Beanstalk, which is basically an abstraction later on top of an autoscaling EC2 cluster.”
neutral · production · cj · 2019-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Should I use ElasticBeanstalk? ECS? Fargate?”
neutral · personal · scarface74 · 2018-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“there is no need for us to redeploy elastic beanstalk instances when we do.”
neutral · production · cyberferret · 2018-03-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“trying to match up Reserved instances with EC2 or Elastic Beanstalk instances that are actually running”
neutral · production · cyberferret · 2017-05-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?