# The operations gap between deploying an application and running it forever

DevFeed: [The operations gap between deploying an application and running it forever](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-operations-gap-between-deploying-an-application-and-running-it-forever-58217.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/the-operations-gap-between-deploying-an-application-and-running-it-forever/>)

Author: Aritra Nag

Published: 2026-09-22T20:38:09Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/containers.md>)

Topics: [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [Platform Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/platform-engineering.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [container images](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/container-images.md>)

Tags: [announcements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcements.md>), [aws-elastic-beanstalk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-elastic-beanstalk.md>), [container-images](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container-images.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [foundational-100](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/foundational-100.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [platform-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform-engineering.md>)

## AI overview

This post examines the operational gap between deploying container images and running applications reliably in production. It introduces AWS Elastic Beanstalk's Cluster Mode deployment model as a way to manage containerized application portfolios and their underlying infrastructure, networking, scaling, and monitoring.

## Source excerpt

This post features the new Cluster Mode deployment model in AWS Elastic Beanstalk that extends the operational promise of the service to containerized application portfolios. You bring your applications as source code, Dockerfiles, or container images, and Elastic Beanstalk takes ongoing operational responsibility for the production environment underneath.