1.3. Sign Up

Before we can do anything, we have to sign up to Elastic Beanstalk. If you are already an AWS user with some experience, you’ll have no trouble with this. You have been exposed to the countless number of services and accompanying acronyms. If you are new to AWS, we suggest you take the easy way, and follow along with us.

Elastic Beanstalk requires you to sign up for a number of other AWS services. Beanstalk uses services like EC2 (compute), EBS (storage), ELB (load balancing), and S3 (another type of storage). Of course, Amazon makes signing up to services as easy as possible. And the only thing you have to do is sign up for Elastic Beanstalk. The rest of the services are automatically added to your arsenal of AWS tools.