Why and How to Host your Rails 6 App with AWS ElasticBeanstalk and RDS

When writing an application, one of the major issues you have to think about is how the application will be shared with the rest of the world.One common approach has been to launch on Heroku. It's easy to set up and is fully managed. But, it's also common for teams to drop Heroku later. As their traffic grows, Heroku becomes too expensive and inflexible.What if it were possible to deploy a new application with Heroku-like ease without giving up the flexibility and cost-savings that you get from a more general-purpose platform like AWS? It is possible, using Elastic Beanstalk -- a service from AWS.In this article, I'm going to walk you through setting up a Rails 6 application and running it on AWS using Elasticbeanstalk as the compute base and RDS (Relational Database Service) - in particular, the Postgres service - as the data store.