Environment actions

This topic describes the common operations that you can select to perform on your environment from the Actions drop-down menu on the environment management console.

The following image illustrates the environment management console. The Actions drop-down menu is on the right side of the header that displays the environment name, next to the Refresh button.

Pause environment

Scale the environment's Auto Scaling group to zero instances so that you stop paying for compute while the environment is idle. The environment keeps its name, ID, URL, configuration, and application version history, and you can resume it at any time. This action is available for load-balanced environments only. For more information, see Pausing and resuming Elastic Beanstalk environments.

Resume environment

Relaunch instances in a paused environment, using the instance counts that the console saved when you paused it, or counts that you enter. Compute charges resume, and the environment might take several minutes to become healthy. For more information, see Resuming an environment.

Load configuration

Load a previously saved configuration. Configurations are saved to your application and can be loaded by any associated environment. If you've made changes to your environment's configuration, you can load a saved configuration to undo those changes. You can also load a configuration that you saved from a different environment running the same application to propagate configuration changes between them.

Save configuration

Save the current configuration of your environment to your application. Before you make changes to your environment's configuration, save the current configuration so that you can roll back later, if needed. You can also apply a saved configuration when you launch a new environment.

Swap environment domain

Swap the CNAME of the current environment with a new environment. After a CNAME swap, all traffic to the application using the environment URL goes to the new environment. When you are ready to deploy a new version of your application, you can launch a separate environment under the new version. When the new environment is ready to start taking requests, perform a CNAME swap to start routing traffic to the new environment. Doing this doesn't interrupt your services. For more information, see Blue/Green deployments with Elastic Beanstalk.

Clone environment

Launch a new environment with the same configuration as your currently running environment.

Abort current operation

Stop an in-progress environment update. Stopping an operation can cause some of the instances in your environment to be in a different state than others, depending on how far the operation progressed. This option is available only when your environment is being updated.

Restart app servers

Restart the web server that is running on your environment's instances. This option doesn't terminate or restart any AWS resources. If your environment is acting strangely in response to some bad requests, restarting the application server can restore functionality temporarily while you troubleshoot the root cause.

Rebuild environment

Terminate all resources in the running environment and build a new environment with the same settings. This operation takes several minutes, similar to the amount of time needed for deploying a new environment from scratch. Any Amazon RDS instances that are running in your environment's data tier are deleted during a rebuild. If you need the data, create a snapshot. You can create a snapshot manually in the RDS console or configure your data tier's Deletion Policy to create a snapshot automatically before deleting the instance. This is the default setting when you create a data tier.

Terminate environment

Terminate all resources in the running environment and remove the environment from the application. If you have an RDS instance that is running in a data tier and you need to retain its data, make sure the database deletion policy is set to either Snapshot or Retain. For more information, see Database lifecycle in the Configuring environments chapter of this guide.

Restore environment

Recreate a recently terminated environment with the same name, ID, and configuration. This action is available from the environment dashboard while the terminated environment still appears in the environments list. To restore an environment that no longer appears in the list, use the Restore terminated environment option on the application page. For more information, see Rebuilding a terminated environment.