Heroku-like deployment and environment configuration via EC2

Question

I really like the approach of a 12factor app, which you are kinda forced into, when you deploy an application to Heroku. For this question I\'m particularly interested in settin

Answer 1

If you dont need beanstalk, you can look at AWS Opsworks (http://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/). Ideal for Web worker kind of deployment scenerios. You can pass any variable from outside the code here (even Chef recipies)