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AWS setup - Node.js Tutorial
From the course: Node.js: Deploying Applications
AWS setup
- [Narrator] AWS is an ever growing collection of Cloud services providing a wide range of functionality. For this class, we'll be using the Elastic Beanstalk service. Elastic Beanstalk is an application deployment service in the Cloud, allowing you to develop your application locally on your system, and use Elastic Beanstalk to host the production version. The service supports multiple languages and web servers. For this course, we'll be using node.js as both the application and the web server. And that will be handled nicely. One major advantage to using a Cloud service of this sort is that you don't need to worry about assigning or managing resources such as disc space or memory, and your application is scaled as needed. This service, as all AWS services, uses the AWS Command Line Interface. We'll be using the EB versions, which wrap some of the more extensive CLI commands to ease use. The base CLI commands provide more flexibility, but we'll be doing some fairly straightforward…
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