Deploying applications to the cloud has become a standard practice for modern software development, providing scalability, reliability, and ease of maintenance.
This blog post explores how to deploy a Spring Boot application to Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Elastic Beanstalk and ECS (Elastic Container Service).
Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications, while ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service for running Docker containers on a cluster.
The steps for deploying a Spring Boot application to AWS with Elastic Beanstalk include packaging the application, installing the Elastic Beanstalk CLI, initializing Elastic Beanstalk, creating an environment and deploying, and monitoring/manage the application. On the other hand, deploying with ECS involves creating a Dockerfile, pushing the Docker image to Docker Hub or Amazon ECR, creating an ECS cluster, creating a task definition, creating a service, and configuring load balancer (optional).