I haven't done any systematic comparison to tell which one's cheaper. AWS allows 1 year of free tier service, so I'm using that. What I like about Beanstalk is

I haven't done any systematic comparison to tell which one's cheaper. AWS allows 1 year of free tier service, so I'm using that. What I like about Beanstalk is that it's extremely easy to deploy updates. Just commit the changes and execute eb deploy. Setting up a new environment via. CLI is also a breeze.