Difference between Elastic Beanstalk vs Cloudformation vs Opswork vs Codedeploy
Greetings from in28minutes.com. In this read, we will take a good look at the different AWS services like Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudformation, Opswork, and Codedeploy. Let us get started.
| Elastic Beanstalk | Cloudformation | Opswork | Codedeploy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elastic Beanstalk AWS service makes it easy for the developer to deploy hosted on AWS environment | Cloud formation provides an easy way to create and manage the aws resources and provision them in a predictable fashion | It is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet | Coordinates the application deployment across ec2 instances |
| Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the scaling, load-balancing, and application monitoring | It only deals with the application infrastructure and not the application itself | Offers three services i.e. Chef Automate, Puppet Enterprise, and OpsWorks Stacks | Does not scale automatically or handle the application monitoring |
| It is popularly called the platform as a service where you only focus on the application and code while the infrastructure is managed by AWS | Cloudformation support elastic beanstalk application environments i.e. creating and managing an aws elastic beanstalk hosted application along with rds to store the application related data | Focuses more on orchestration and software configuration and less on what and how AWS resources are procured | Does not handle infrastructure configuration or orchestration |
| Support deployment versioning where it maintains a copy of older deployments. Offer easiness to rollback to previous versions in case of current deployment failure | Supports rollback feature through template version controls while updating the stack but deployment failed midway |