BEANSTALK

· Fastest and simplest way to deploy and manage your applications in the cloud

· capacity provisioning, load balancing, automatic scaling and health monitoring

· you can select the ec2 type that is optimal for your application

· you can retain full administrative control over the resources powering the application or have elastic bean stalk do it for you

· Managed Platform updates - automatically applies updates your Operating System, Java, PHP, Node.js etc

· Monitor and manage application health via a dashboard

· Integrated with CloudWatch and X-ray for performance data and metrics

· Platform as a service

· Supports multiple languages

· uses cloudformation