[rvillanueva]

I spent a month trying to get Elastic Beanstalk to work elegantly and it was still a slog understanding failed deploys and managing the nuances of networking and the headache of waiting for the system to get to a manageable state.

We ended up switching to https://render.com and I got everything I needed spun up in 3 days. You don’t have the same access to underlying resources in AWS but you get everything EB is supposed to do but faster and more user-friendly. It is much more actively maintained than Heroku’s current zombie state.