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Current sample deploy fails if you select Amazon Linux 2 instead of legacy Amazon AMI Linux.

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
aws, express, linux, node.js

Research direction

Start by deploying the current sample with Amazon Linux 2 during Elastic Beanstalk creation and compare the failure with the linked Amazon Linux 2 migration documentation. Review the online directions for the missing platform guidance. Done means the directions clearly address the platform choice and the Node.js sample deploys successfully on Amazon Linux 2.

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Description

The sample code is out-of-date wrt Amazon Linux 2 and fails deployment if this option is selected during EB creation.

And, because the online directions were written prior to Amazon Linux 2 there's no mention of this possibility. So, out-of-the-box experiment fails immediately for reasons left to the developer to decipher if they blithely select Amazon Linux 2.

It would be helpful to make this clear in the online documentation by linking prominently to:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/using-features.migration-al.html

But, it would be even better to have a working Node.js EB example that deploys on Amazon's preferred and latest Linux dist.

Thanks.

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