A VPS is just a single box, while AWS is designed for scalability (they launch a load balancer for you and everything). It's basically the same as manually conf

A VPS is just a single box, while AWS is designed for scalability (they launch a load balancer for you and everything). It's basically the same as manually configuring EC2, EBS, ELB and AutoScaling to work together, except that the deployment is automatic and you can use Git. It does cost quite a bit more though. It might make sense for a company that needs to scale, but I think I'm going to stick with my VPS provider for my own sites.