Editing Deploying a Django app on AWS (section)

== AWS Elastic Beanstalk ==

Existing Elastic Beanstalk applications and environments can be found in the [https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/home AWS Elastic Beanstalk management console]. 

Create a new Elastic Beanstalk application from the command line on a local workstation:

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$ eb init
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This will prompt for region, credentials, application name, python version, ssh availability, etc. 

These properties are stored in `.elasticbeanstalk/config.yml` which should '''not''' be added to Git. 

Create a new Elastic Beanstalk environment from the command line on a local workstation. Assuming that the instance is using an independent RDS. 

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$ eb create 
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If instead the Elastic Beanstalk environment is creating its own database, it's necessary to specify that option with the `create` command:

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$ eb create --database.engine postgres
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This will prompt for the environment name, its URL prefix, and a database username and password.