G2

Bibhishan D.

QA Lead

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/1/2026

"Elastic Beanstalk Simplifies Deployments with Auto-Scaling and Load Balancing"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

As a DevOps engineer, Elastic Beanstalk has significantly simplified our web application deployment workflow. What I appreciate most is how it abstracts away much of the underlying infrastructure complexity—you can upload your code, and it automatically takes care of capacity provisioning, load balancing, and auto-scaling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

The main limitation I've encountered is reduced flexibility when you need fine-grained control over the underlying EC2 instances or want to use very custom configurations.

The .ebextensions configuration system works, but can feel clunky for complex setups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Elastic Beanstalk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Elastic Beanstalk has removed the need to manually manage and configure servers for our web applications.

Our team can focus on shipping features rather than maintaining infrastructure.

Deployment times have improved, and the built-in health monitoring gives us confidence that issues are caught early. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.