Amazon AWS Beanstalk IP based throttling

Question

I've deployed a web app using Amazon AWS beanstalk. Could someone please throw some light on how AWS takes care of IP based throttling?

Earlier when I had my own tomcat instance running on EC2, I was using iptables for this purpose. But, now I'm confused about how to achieve this since AWS scales my webapp on multiple machines based on the load.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Well, internally Beanstalk is Cloudformation stack, which includes: loadbalancer, autoscalling group ans pre configured ami with tomcat.

You have two option how to implement throttling: 1. Setup iptables rules with help of EB configuration files: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/customize-containers.html 2. Create custom ami. Described:http://blog.jetztgrad.net/2011/02/how-to-customize-an-amazon-elastic-beanstalk-instance/