I think the big advantage here is really just how much you just get out of the box without sacrificing flexibility -- if you're deploying on AWS in the first pl

I think the big advantage here is really just how much you just get out of the box without sacrificing flexibility -- if you're deploying on AWS in the first place. This seems like it would also save us from writing a bunch of management scripts (around scaling, etc) which would be tied to AWS anyway (read: no inherent disadvantage since any solution in-house or not would require the AWS platform). I'm always looking for ways for us to reduce our code/services footprint and this would seem to do so without a huge amount of vendor lock-in.