What is the difference between a plain Amazon ec2 instance and beanstalk?
- by Alex Ford
I am a solo developer and the sites I'm deploying are very small, usually hobby sites and I have a few questions about the Amazon services.
Is there a reason for me to use beanstalk or should I just stick with a single ec2 instance?
Should I use RDS for database? I heard someone say that I could just install a database on my ec2 instance, making it cheaper. I'm trying to keep everything as cheap as possible.
I need to point custom domains to my sites. Pretty sure that means I have to deal with elastic IPs. Do those work with beanstalk or only with individual ec2 instances?
Thanks in advance!