Custom Platform

• Define your own Elastic Beanstalk platform from scratch including
  • OS system
  • Additional software
  • Scripts that Beanstalk runs on these platform
• use case: language incompatible
• To create a platform
  • Define AMI using platform.yaml file
  • Build that platform using packer software (open source tools to create AMIs)

Custom Platform vs Custom Image (AMI)

• Customer Image is to tweak existing platform
• Custom platform is to create entirely new beanstalk platform