AWS Beanstalk for docker does work, but has some weaker points of relative comparison: * inefficient - 1 docker image per AWS instance, which is expensive to run scaled up compared to running many containers per host * slow - requires starting a VM which typically takes several minutes * feature-bare - compared with PaaS platforms like heroku, cloud foundry, openshift, etc. for example, both heroku and cloud foundry have built-in aggregated logging and health management.

there is going to be a large spectrum of ways to run docker images, and you'll be able to choose bare bones to full-service.

here is a 4min video of cloud foundry next generation runtime diego showing spinning up 300 docker images in under a minute, providing load balancing, health management and aggregated logging: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e76a50ZgzxM

james - cloud foundry team