AWS Administration : The AWS Definitive Guide to core AWS service offerings and implementing AWS in your own environment

Creating the Dev environment

Let's first start off by creating a simple and straightforward development environment for our WordPress site. To do so, execute the following steps:

1. Sign in to the AWS Console and select the Elastic Beanstalk option from the Services filter, or alternatively, launch the Elastic Beanstalk console by launching the URL https://console.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk in a browser of your choice.
2. Next, select the Create New Application option to get started. Remember, an application is the highest level of container for our application code, which can contain one or more environments as required.
3. In the Create New Application dialog box, provide a suitable Application Name and an optional Description to get started ...