* Docs are pretty bad * I invariably need to log onto the instance itself to find deployment bugs during development (that said, it's great th

* Docs are pretty bad * I invariably need to log onto the instance itself to find deployment bugs during development (that said, it's great that I can do that) * Using their AMIs is the easiest but you may find that they don't support the combination of software you need * If you're deploying a python app, you'll want to install celery, rails resque, php gearman etc. Beanstalk doesn't really have an answer for the 'deploy an asynchronous job server'