I like Elastic Beanstalk, especially since it's just EC2 under the hood. You can still tweak for example Tomcat or Linux settings if you really need to (by crea

I like Elastic Beanstalk, especially since it's just EC2 under the hood. You can still tweak for example Tomcat or Linux settings if you really need to (by creating a custom Beanstalk AMI). Concerning message queues and other JEE features. There's nobody preventing you from deploying an EC2 instance with ActiveMQ or another broker :).