Western Governors University (WGU) ITEC3005 D341 Cloud Deployment and Operations Practice Exam

To activate a new application version in Elastic Beanstalk after deployment, swapping environment URLs is the correct step. The process of swapping environment URLs involves switching the endpoints of two environments so that the new version of the application can be accessed by users seamlessly.

This is particularly useful in a blue-green deployment strategy, where the new application version is deployed to a new environment (let’s say “green”), while the current version remains in production (“blue”). Once the deployment is validated, by swapping the environment URLs, traffic is directed to the new version without any downtime, allowing for quick rollbacks if necessary.

Swapping environment URLs is a straightforward approach that minimizes user impact and ensures a smoother transition when implementing updates. In contrast, rebuilding or cloning environments does not directly facilitate immediate activation of a new application version for user access, and composing environment usually refers to managing different resource components rather than activating versions.