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By that logic AWS isn't a good fit for new web technologies either, since that was the blocker here.

This is why I would never use any PaaS, only IaaS. IaaS providers don't do blog posts proudly declaring that they now support 3 year old technology.

> IaaS providers don't do blog posts proudly declaring that they now support 3 year old technology.

AWS is an IaaS ??

ELB is their PaaS offering.

I think you're thinking of Elastic Beanstalk