Publishing to AWS

In this section, we will publish our application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. At this point, you should have an AWS account created. There are several ways to deploy to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. One way would be in the AWS console directly. Instead, we will use the AWS Toolkit as it simplifies the deployment process. To deploy using the AWS Toolkit, we need to add the required credentials to Visual Studio.

Creating a user for publishing from Visual Studio

In order to get the credentials we need, we will create a user in AWS. This is done in the AWS console. Go ahead and log in:

1. The service we are interested in deals with identity and access. To find this service, use the Services dropdown and type iam as shown in Figure 10.22:

   Figure 10.22 – IAM service

2. After selecting this service, select Users under Access management as shown in Figure 10.23:

   Figure 10.23 – Identity and Access Management (IAM)

3. We want to add a user, so select the Add...