Why we love AWS Beanstalk but are leaving it anyway

Cross-posted from Telia’s Tech Blog. We have had our mission-critical webapp running on AWS Elastic Beanstalk for three years and have been extremely happy with it. However we have now outgrown it and move to a manually managed infrastructure and CodeDeploy. AWS Beanstalk provides you with lot of bang for the buck and enables you

Pains with Terraform (perhaps use Sceptre next time?)

Cross-posted from Telia’s Tech Blog We use Amazon Web Services (AWS) heavily and are in the process of migrating towards infrastructure-as-code, i.e. creating a textual description of the desired infrastructure in a Domain-Specific Language and letting the tool create and update the infrastructure. We are lucky enough to have some of the leading Terraform experts