Elastic Beanstalk for personal projects: a quick experience report

Posted on Sat 13 April 2019 in Articles • Tagged with alexa, elasticbeanstalk, aws, biblescholar, pricing

I have been running the backend of the BibleScholar Alexa App on Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk service since late 2016. Now that I'm about to start up a couple other personal projects on AWS, I wanted to come back around and discuss what I liked or didn't like about running this …


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Basic vs Enhanced Health Checks on AWS ELB

Posted on Thu 29 June 2017 in Articles • Tagged with alexa, elasticbeanstalk, aws, biblescholar

The Problem

Yesterday I started getting a lot of emails from Amazon saying that there were issues with the ELB application that runs my Alexa App.


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Setting up SSL for an ElasticBeanstalk Application

Posted on Sun 01 January 2017 in Articles • Tagged with alexa, elasticbeanstalk, aws, biblescholar, ssl

In my last article I discussed how I created an Alexa application using AWS ElasticBeanstalk. I left off stuck in the last step of getting the site set up with a SSL certificate from a trusted CA.

In general AWS makes the process of setting up SSL for a site …


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Introducing the BibleScholar Alexa application

Posted on Sat 31 December 2016 in Articles • Tagged with alexa, elasticbeanstalk, aws, biblescholar

When I went to the AWS Re:Invent conference this November, every attendee got an Echo Dot. Since then I've been looking for something useful to do with it. So far I've been just asking Alexa about the weather, traffic, and (very corny) jokes.

Several of my long term side …


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