When an application is developed and deployed to an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment, having two separate, but identical, environments—blue and green—increases availability and reduces risk.

The blue environment is the production environment that normally handles live traffic.

The CI/CD pipeline architecture creates a clone (green) of the live Elastic Beanstalk environment (blue).

The pipeline then swaps the URLs between the two environments.

When an application is developed and deployed to an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment, having two separate, but identical, environments—blue and green—increases availability and reduces risk. 

https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/blue-green-deployment/

Anuj holds professional certifications in Google Cloud, AWS as well as certifications in Docker and App Performance Tools such as New Relic. He specializes in Cloud Security, Data Encryption and Container Technologies.

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