AWS Elastic Beanstalk with docker-compose.yml – Nginx

I am trying to deploy several services using AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Docker running on Amazon Linux 2 platform.
Since, there are two services in my docker-compose.yml file:

version: '3.8'
services:
  beanstalk-flask:
    image: "anotheruserdocker/beanstalk-flask"
    ports:
      - "5000:5000"
  tasks:
    image: "xxxxx.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/xxx:xxx"
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"

I need to change nginx service configuration in order to proxy traffic to specific service.
I was following the documentation, in which it was noted that you can override the default nginx.conf with your own and in order to do it, you need to place your config file in the application source bundle, like so .platform/nginx/nginx.conf.
I have also included this include conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/*.conf; line in order to override it.
nginx.conf file:

# Elastic Beanstalk Nginx Configuration File

user  nginx;
worker_processes  auto;
error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;
worker_rlimit_nofile    32633;
include conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/*.conf;

upstream service_1 {
    server 172.17.0.1:8080;
    keepalive 256;
}

upstream serivce_2 {
    server 172.17.0.1:5000;
    keepalive 256;
}

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    access_log    /var/log/nginx/access.log;


    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                          '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                          '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    include  conf.d/*.conf;

    map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
            default       "upgrade";
    }

    server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        gzip on;
        gzip_comp_level 4;
        gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

        access_log    /var/log/nginx/access.log main;

        location / {
            proxy_pass            http://service_1;
            proxy_http_version    1.1;

            proxy_set_header    Connection             $connection_upgrade;
            proxy_set_header    Upgrade                $http_upgrade;
            proxy_set_header    Host                   $host;
            proxy_set_header    X-Real-IP              $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-For        $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        }

        location /api {
            proxy_pass            http://service_2;
            proxy_http_version    1.1;
        }

        # Include the Elastic Beanstalk generated locations
        include conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/*.conf;
    }
}

Once I’m uploading the application source bundle that looks like this:

docker-compose.yml
.platform/nginx/nginx.conf

the configuration doesn’t change.
Am I missing something, is it a bug, or are there any other ways to change/modify the default nginx configuration?
Also, I have noticed that upon booting nginx.service isn’t in running state, is it possible to start this service upon boot?
Thank you.