# Connect Akto with AWS Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an AWS service that abstracts away the infrastructure complexity, making it easy to deploy and run applications in multiple languages like Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker. By integrating AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Akto, you'll be able to automatically discover and test APIs running on your Elastic Beanstalk environments, ensuring security testing is part of your seamless deployment process.

To connect Akto with AWS Beanstalk, follow these steps -

1. Set up and configure Akto Traffic Processor. The steps are mentioned [here](https://docs.akto.io/getting-started/traffic-processor/hybrid-saas).
2. Add AWS Beanstalk connector
   1. Go to **Quick Start** in Akto Dashboard
   2. Scroll to **AWS Beanstalk** block and click on the **Connect** button to get instructions

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