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Beanstalk is a joke.

You can launch a DB through EB but the docs basically state it's a bad idea (as it gets taken down when you delete your app, which you might find yourself doing if EB gets in to an unrecoverable state).

So now you have to manage EB + RDS separately, which should be automated so now you need CloudFormation to add the security groups and manage the vars for the DB connection properties in your EB.