This document provides an overview and comparison of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Beanstalk and AWS OpsWorks for deploying and managing applications in AWS. It describes how Elastic Beanstalk allows deploying applications quickly using predefined configuration templates, while OpsWorks provides more control over infrastructure configuration using Chef recipes. Both services automatically provision and scale the underlying AWS resources like EC2 instances and load balancers needed to run applications, charging only for those underlying resources rather than additional platform fees. The document recommends starting with Elastic Beanstalk for simpler use cases and OpsWorks for more complex, customizable architectures.