Amazon Web Service Elastic Beanstalk now supports Node.js applications: stakes and opportunity.
Available officially since
March 11, 2013, this announcement means that henceforth you can build
event-driven Node.js applications and then use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy and
manage them on AWS. In addition Elastic Beanstalk automatically configures the
environment and resources using sensible defaults in order to run
your Node.js
application.
Here are some major features include:
- ‘’Choose Nginx or Apache as the reverse proxy to your Node.js application. You can even choose to not use any proxy if your application requires that the client establishes a direct connection.
- Configure HTTP and TCP load balancing depending on what your application needs. If your application uses WebSockets, then TCP load balancing might be more appropriate for your workload.
- Configure the Node.js stack by using the specific version of Node.js that your application needs or by providing the command that is used to launch your Node.js application. You can also manage dependencies using npm.
- Help improve performance by configuring gzip compression and static files when using Nginx or Apache. With gzip compression, you can reduce the size of your response to the client to help create faster transfer speeds. With static files, you can let Nginx or Apache quickly serve your static assets (such as images or CSS) without having these requests take time away from the data-intensive processing that your Node.js application might be performing.
- Seamlessly integrate your app with Amazon RDS to store and retrieve data from a relational data store.
- Customize your EC2 instances or connect your app to AWS resources using Elastic Beanstalk configuration files (visit the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide to learn more about configuration files).
- Run your Node.js application inside an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud for additional networking control.’’
You can learn more about
Elastic Beanstalk for Node.js, visit the clicking here.
