Alternative production environments

(electronic music)…- And as we've always done we talk about the alternatives.…Obviously, if you go with a platform as a service,…like Heroku, it's fully managed,…your DevOps responsibilities are virtually nil.…But it tends to cost a lot of money at scale.…Whereas, if you go to the other extreme…managing your own infrastructure,…what you don't get is this orchestration software.…So when you do an EB deploy,…there's no management software…that's going to take some of your instances…out of the fleet, update them,…put them back in, and do those changes for you.…

So there's lots of other open source software…and Amazon tools that you can use to accomplish this.…But that is essentially the value…that Elastic Beanstalk provides,…is that even though…it is kind of a pain in the ass to set up,…once it is set up the orchestration that you get…is actually pretty strong.…Generally the more control you have over the infrastructure…the more DevOps you're going to have to do.…And really what this comes down to is resources, right?…