[halilim]

I wrestled with Elastic Beanstalk 10 months ago for 2 days and had to give up in the end. Every deploy was dog-slow. And I was trying all kinds of things, imagine the frustration. Only certain versions of software are supported, though I downgraded just to test EB. But I still couldn't get it running in the end.

I can't recall a single time I had a problem deploying to Heroku, including the first deploys. Heroku is lightyears ahead of EB. Speaking of deployment, I might try Convox sometime in the future.

OTOH you can use RDS with Heroku, just be careful to have them in the same region.

[bpicolo]

EB supports docker deploys now, which helps with the version stuff, though can create it's own difficulties. True that EB deployment is very one-function though. Tacking anything on is hacky and gets thrown behind the scenes, so is hard to track and audit