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Wish there was more information about Elastic beanstalk - it always confuses me about how it works..

Well, you could start by submitting a PR with everything you already know about Beanstalk:

1. That would be very valuable for everyone else.

2. A section, that does not look overwhelmingly empty would attract more and higher quality contributions from others. Kind of a reverse broken windows theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory).

I've had the impression that elastic beanstalk (which I use) has suffered the fate of a few other Aws offerings in has been seen as less trendy than Docker/ECS. (See also: cloud search vs elasticsearch). But EB can do some things very well and very painlessly.

EB tends to work very well when you're requirements fit within its framework - and very badly when you try to do anything differently. We've moved to CodeDeploy because: EB was slow to deploy; often left applications in an 'unknown' state after deployment; ties application configuration to deployment; and generally felt fairly restrictive.

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