For ease of use alone and fastest time to market (aka least messing around for a web app) I'd rank them as: 1) Heroku 2) beanstalk* 3) GCE * Currently worki

For ease of use alone and fastest time to market (aka least messing around for a web app) I'd rank them as: 1) Heroku 2) beanstalk* 3) GCE * Currently working extensively with beanstalk. Containers and instances are still more of a pain than Heroku's basic model but they can be pretty flexible.