# Install aws-elasticbeanstalk with Homebrew Client for Amazon Elastic Beanstalk web service. Version 3.27.3 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-15. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:aws-elasticbeanstalk ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install aws-elasticbeanstalk ``` Evidence: provider-native install command ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:aws-elasticbeanstalk - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 3.27.3 - **Source summary:** Client for Amazon Elastic Beanstalk web service - **Homepage:** - **Last updated:** 2026-07-15T10:20:42Z - **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00 ## Executables - eb (alias) - ebp (alias) ## Install behavior - Bottle: not available ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-08-03 - Package-manager version: 3.27.3 ## Project history and usage The AWS Elastic Beanstalk CLI, usually invoked as `eb`, is AWS's higher-level command-line client for creating, deploying, updating, and monitoring Elastic Beanstalk applications and environments. It sits above the lower-level AWS CLI Elastic Beanstalk API commands and adds project-aware workflows, Git integration, interactive initialization, environment management, and deployment packaging. ### Project history Elastic Beanstalk itself was announced by AWS on January 19, 2011 as a managed application deployment service that provisions capacity, load balancing, auto scaling, and health monitoring around uploaded applications. The EB CLI grew around that platform as the developer-friendly local workflow for Beanstalk projects. The current EB CLI repository states that the CLI is now open source and hosted on GitHub. Its README presents the project as the command-line interface for deploying and managing Elastic Beanstalk applications and environments, with integration with Git and contribution through issues and pull requests. The upstream changelog shows an actively maintained 3.x line. Recent entries include Python dependency support work, region and bucket updates, IIS migration helpers, remote execution work, Python 3.12 support, and security fixes for local state deserialization and zip extraction. ### Adoption history The EB CLI became the Beanstalk-specific companion to general AWS CLI usage: AWS documentation explicitly contrasts the lower-level AWS CLI sequence for creating environments with the EB CLI's project-oriented single-command workflow. That made `eb init`, `eb create`, `eb deploy`, and related commands standard muscle memory for Beanstalk users. Homebrew analytics showed 316 installs in 30 days, 1,512 in 90 days, and 8,175 in 365 days at the time of this batch. Those figures are modest relative to the AWS CLI, but healthy for a service-specific deployment tool whose main distribution path also includes pip and AWS's setup scripts. ### How it is used Typical usage starts by installing the CLI, configuring a project directory, and running commands such as `eb create` or `eb deploy`. AWS documentation says the EB CLI can create environments with a single command after installation and configuration. The CLI stores project settings in `.elasticbeanstalk/config.yml` and reads credentials from command-line options, environment variables, shared AWS credentials and config files, the legacy EB CLI config file, and EC2 instance profile credentials, in that documented precedence order. ### Why package nerds care For package-manager people, aws-elasticbeanstalk is a classic example of a cloud vendor's service-specific CLI packaged outside the service's own installer story. The Homebrew formula wraps the Python `awsebcli` distribution, while AWS still recommends a separate setup-script repository for users who want an isolated virtual environment and pinned dependencies. ### Timeline - 2011: AWS announces Elastic Beanstalk beta. - 3.x: EB CLI is maintained as the open-source `aws/aws-elastic-beanstalk-cli` project. - 2024: EB CLI 3.21.0 updates dependencies and declares support boundaries around Python versions. - 2026: EB CLI 3.27.x changelog entries include AI log analysis, region updates, and security fixes. ### Related projects - aws/aws-elastic-beanstalk-cli-setup: AWS's recommended setup-script installer repository. - AWS CLI Elastic Beanstalk commands: lower-level API access for the same service. - Elastic Beanstalk `.ebextensions`: application-source configuration files used by the service. ### Sources - - - - - - ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for aws-elasticbeanstalk. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL. ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: ./.elasticbeanstalk/config.yml ## Credential files - Unix: ~/.aws/credentials, ~/.aws/config, ~/.elasticbeanstalk/config - Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.aws\credentials, %USERPROFILE%\.aws\config, %USERPROFILE%\.elasticbeanstalk\config ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/aws-elasticbeanstalk.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/aws-elasticbeanstalk.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation