Document history
The following table describes the important changes to the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide since April 2024.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
AWS managed policy updates for | Updated permissions in AWS managed policy to add Amazon Nova and AWS Marketplace permissions for AI-powered environment analysis. | April 29, 2026 |
Updated permissions in AWS managed policy to add Amazon Nova and AWS Marketplace permissions for AI-powered environment analysis. | April 29, 2026 | |
AWS managed policy updates for | Updated permissions in AWS managed policy to add Amazon Nova and AWS Marketplace permissions for AI-powered environment analysis. | April 29, 2026 |
Revised topic: Deployment logs now available on Windows Server platforms | Deployment logs are now supported on Windows Server platform versions. | April 22, 2026 |
Revised topic: AI-powered environment analysis now available on Windows Server platforms | AI-powered environment analysis is now supported on Windows Server platform versions. | April 22, 2026 |
Revised topic: AI-powered environment analysis prerequisites | Added requirement to submit Anthropic use case details form in Amazon Bedrock before using AI-powered environment analysis. | March 24, 2026 |
AWS managed policy updates for | Updated permissions in AWS managed policy to support managed updates when resource tagging with launch templates is enabled. | March 17, 2026 |
Added | March 13, 2026 | |
Elastic Beanstalk adds support to view deployment logs for your environment directly from the console. | March 11, 2026 | |
AWS managed policy updates for | Updated permissions in AWS managed policy for AI-powered environment analysis. | March 11, 2026 |
Updated permissions in AWS managed policy for AI-powered environment analysis. | March 11, 2026 | |
AWS managed policy updates for | Updated permissions in AWS managed policy for AI-powered environment analysis. | March 11, 2026 |
Elastic Beanstalk adds AI-powered analysis to help identify root causes and provide solutions for environment health issues using Amazon Bedrock. | February 26, 2026 | |
Added documentation for implementing CI/CD pipelines with Elastic Beanstalk using GitHub Actions. | February 23, 2026 | |
AWS managed policy updates for | Updated permissions in AWS managed policy to support resource tagging with single instance environments. | January 27, 2026 |
Revised topic: JSON key extraction for AWS Secrets Manager secrets | Elastic Beanstalk adds support to extract specific JSON keys from AWS Secrets Manager secrets by appending a colon and the key name to the secret ARN. | January 13, 2026 |
AWS managed policy updates for | Updated permissions in AWS managed policy. | November 12, 2025 |
Revised topic: Deploying Elastic Beanstalk applications in .NET using AWS deployment tools | Updated topic to remove deprecated awsdeploy.exe content and add documentation for current AWS .NET application deployment tools. | October 3, 2025 |
New topic: Configuring dual-stack Elastic Beanstalk load balancers | Elastic Beanstalk adds support for your environment to serve both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols by providing the dual-stack configuration option for Application and Network Load Balancers. | September 9, 2025 |
Added topic with resources for implementing CI/CD pipelines with Elastic Beanstalk. | August 22, 2025 | |
Moved the retired custom platforms topic to the Archived content chapter. | July 16, 2025 | |
Updated documentation for running multiple applications and ASP.NET Core applications with a deployment manifest. | July 11, 2025 | |
New topic: QuickStart for deploying a multi-container Docker Compose application to Elastic Beanstalk. | July 8, 2025 | |
Added | June 25, 2025 | |
Added schema reference documentation for the Windows deployment manifest. | June 11, 2025 | |
New architecture diagram and condensed introduction for clarity. | June 5, 2025 | |
Condensed and focused installation instructions. | June 5, 2025 | |
Added a step to update and redeploy the application and improved some instructions. | June 5, 2025 | |
Streamlined the Getting Started tutorial for clarity and quicker onboarding. | June 5, 2025 | |
Reorganized content structure to highlight essential information and improve discoverability. | June 5, 2025 | |
Elastic Beanstalk adds support to opt out environment from default EC2 security group. | April 30, 2025 | |
Elastic Beanstalk adds feature to migrate your Windows IIS applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. | April 18, 2025 | |
New topic: Using Elastic Beanstalk with AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store | Elastic Beanstalk adds support to reference AWS Secrets Manager secrets and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store parameters with environment variables. | March 31, 2025 |
AWS managed policy updates for | Updated permissions in AWS managed policy. | February 27, 2025 |
Launch configurations deprecated in favor of launch templates | Revised this topic to explain how Elastic Beanstalk environments are affected by Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling deprecation of launch configurations in favor of launch templates. We also revised other content related to launch configurations and launch templates. | January 23, 2025 |
New topic: Using EC2 Fast Launch with Windows platform branches | Elastic Beanstalk Windows platform releases include base AMIs with EC2 Fast Launch enabled. | January 22, 2025 |
Elastic Beanstalk adds support for Spot Allocation Strategy configuration during environment creation. | January 15, 2025 | |
Updated permissions in AWS managed policy. | December 11, 2024 | |
Recommendations for Graviton arm64 first wave environments to Archived content chapter | Moved EB Recommendations for Graviton arm64 first wave environments to Archived content chapter | October 5, 2024 |
New topic: Launch templates. This topic explains how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is phasing out launch configurations in favor of launch templates. | October 1, 2024 | |
New topic: QuickStart for Python | September 24, 2024 | |
Required Amazon S3 bucket permissions for restrictive VPC endpoint policies | New topic: Required Amazon S3 bucket permissions for restrictive VPC endpoint policies | September 18, 2024 |
New topic: QuickStart for Java JSP application running on Tomcat | September 12, 2024 | |
New topic: QuickStart for Java | September 12, 2024 | |
Using the Amazon EC2 Systems Manager for Docker private repositories | Reinstated topic: Using the Amazon EC2 Systems Manager for Docker private repositories. Replaces topic Using the AWS Secrets Manager for Docker private repositories until Elastic Beanstalk / SSM integration is supported. | September 8, 2024 |
Moved EB CLI 2.6 (retired) to Archived content chapter | August 15, 2024 | |
Moved EB API (retired) to Archived content chapter | August 15, 2024 | |
Deploying Elastic Beanstalk applications from Docker containers | Updated and reorganized: Deploying Elastic Beanstalk applications from Docker containers | August 15, 2024 |
New chapter: Archived content | August 15, 2024 | |
New topic: QuickStart for Windows ASP.NET | July 5, 2024 | |
New topic: QuickStart for .NET Core on Windows | June 28, 2024 | |
New topic: QuickStart for Docker | June 19, 2024 | |
New topic: Preventing cross-environment Amazon S3 bucket access | June 12, 2024 | |
New topic: QuickStart for .NET Core on Windows | May 28, 2024 | |
New topic: QuickStart for PHP | May 10, 2024 | |
New topic: QuickStart for Node.js | May 5, 2024 | |
New topic: QuickStart for Go | May 5, 2024 | |
Added new topic that includes a schedule of Upcoming platform branch releases. Moved Retiring platform branch schedule and Retired platform branch history to this topic. | May 1, 2024 | |
Updated permissions in AWS managed policy. | April 30, 2024 | |
| Updated permissions in AWS managed policy. | April 30, 2024 |
| Updated permissions in AWS managed policy. | April 30, 2024 |
Updated permissions in AWS managed policy. | April 30, 2024 | |
| Updated permissions in AWS managed policy. | April 30, 2024 |