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- ↑ "Release: AWS Elastic Beanstalk" . Retrieved 2013-05-06.
- ↑ "What Is AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Why Do I Need It?" . Retrieved 2013-05-27.
- 1 2 3 Wittig, Andreas; Wittig, Michael (2016). Amazon Web Services in Action. Manning Press. p. 132-133. ISBN 978-1-61729-288-0.
- ↑ "AWS Elastic Beanstalk: deployment options". 5 January 2022.
- ↑ "AWS Elastic Beanstalk FAQ" . Retrieved 2020-03-17.
- ↑ AWS in Action & Wittig (2016), p. 112.
