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I found Elastic Beanstalk had extremely serious latency and performance problems for PHP5, that didn't occur when setting up manual EC2/Load balancer. I intended to investigate it, but never had time.

I spent a lot of time trying to come up with a stable installation of EB for a Rails 3.2 app using RDS and just couldn't get it to a state where I'd ever deploy it as production. Here's where I decided to pull the plug:

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=410445&#...

Quite a few people still report a myriad of issues with Rails applications. I really want EB to work well with Rails, but just didn't have confidence in it.

SSL pain can be a major pain to set up. Is the process of setting it up remotely easy compared to Heroku?

not if you use elastic load balancer... it's incredibly easy

Setting up SSL on Elastic Beanstalk was very easy for us. The documentation explained the entire process. It is easier if you get a wildcard SSL cert, so then you can use the same SSL cert for your various deployments under the same domain.

That's very intriguing. Do they support postinstall/post-deploy scripts/hooks like dotCloud to run some framework set-up?