Update deprecated php platform on Elastic Beanstalk

Question

When I log in Elastic Beanstalk, I see that my platform is deprecated:

I guess it is because of the 7.2 PHP version that is now unsupported.

But when I click on change I don't see any higher version. In addition I can't find where in ElasticBeanstalk I can change the PHP version of my app.

Answer 1

The support for 64bit Amazon Linux 2018.03 v2.9.17 running PHP 7.2 finished on May 2, 2021. The only current versions of EB for PHP are based on Amazon Linux 2 (AL2).

Since AL1 is largely different then AL1 (what you have now), the only way to upgrade is to perform migration from AL1 to AL2 as explained in:

• Migrating your Elastic Beanstalk Linux application to Amazon Linux 2