Difference between Amazon ec2 and AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Question

Can someone please explain what is the difference between EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk?

Refer this video for a detailed walkthrough on EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjPUyGKRjZs

Hope this helps! — Sirajul, Sep 29, 2020

Priyaj · Answer 1 · Jul 9, 2018

EC2

EC2 is Amazon's service that allows you to create a server (AWS calls these instances) in the AWS cloud. You pay by the hour and only what you use. You can do whatever you want with this instance as well as launch n number of instances.

Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk is one layer of abstraction away from the EC2 layer. Elastic Beanstalk will setup an "environment" for you that can contain a number of EC2 instances, an optional database, as well as a few other AWS components such as a Elastic Load Balancer, Auto-Scaling Group, Security Group. Then Elastic Beanstalk will manage these items for you whenever you want to update your software running in AWS. Elastic Beanstalk doesn't add any cost on top of these resources that it creates for you. If you have 10 hours of EC2 usage, then all you pay is 10 compute hours.

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