Not as feature rich as Heroku, but AWS' Elastic Beanstalk was so much easier for me to get my Java/Spring application up and running. I had endless headaches on

Not as feature rich as Heroku, but AWS' Elastic Beanstalk was so much easier for me to get my Java/Spring application up and running. I had endless headaches on Heroku. Elastic Beanstalk was simple upload a WAR and off to the races. Considering most folks probably wind up with AWS as a deployment target and EB is at no additional cost over the normal AWS costs, it's probably worth looking into right off the bat.