Stripe for payments, AWS Elastic Beanstalk for hosting/deployments.
Wish there was an even dumber alternative to Beanstalk. I've been tempted to build my own thing to get closer to my ideal of uploading a jar and forgetting about it.
(Raw javascript / vertx / postgres for actual development, but these aren't SaaS)
My experience with Beanstalk was much the same had the feeling of a lot of hacky Ruby, Python scripts thrown together. Logs in random place, sometimes would get "stuck"
Current project uses GCP App Engine "Flexible" which is easier and seems to be built on better foundations than Beanstalk. Build a docker image and run. Although like you we could skip the docker shenanigans and just need a JRE to run our uber .jar (distroless https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless/tree/mast... makes a basic JVM docker container easy)
This was a big reason why I switched over to Heroku. More expensive, for sure, but I'm so much more productive and don't have to worry about annoying config issues.
CapRover can accept any docker file (or a zip file with a .captain file). You can provision most databases and external self hosted services on a simple UI.
Beanstalk is cool. Just curious, in what ways could it be more simplified? I think we can already just upload our code and forget about it. It could be that I am missing something.
There's a lot of configuration, and not a lot of debug output. Simple things that should be defaults like HTTPS forwarding instead require a barely-documented ngnx patch. If something goes wrong before your app comes up, it doesn't tell you. Logs are spread across several files, most of them meaningless because they're details about the AWS-generated environment.
It does a good enough job of staying running once it's up though, so at least it's easy to forget why it was a pain to set up.
Wish there was an even dumber alternative to Beanstalk. I've been tempted to build my own thing to get closer to my ideal of uploading a jar and forgetting about it.
(Raw javascript / vertx / postgres for actual development, but these aren't SaaS)