What is a key benefit of using Amazon Elastic Beanstalk?

Using Amazon Elastic Beanstalk offers the significant benefit of simplified application deployment and management. This service automates the process of deploying applications, taking care of the underlying infrastructure such as resource provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and monitoring. With Elastic Beanstalk, developers can simply upload their code, and the service automatically handles the details required to make the application run, significantly reducing the complexity associated with application deployment.

This streamlined approach allows developers to focus on writing code and developing features, rather than managing servers and infrastructure, making it easier to deploy updates and scale applications according to demand. The combination of built-in monitoring through AWS CloudWatch and the easy ability to configure capacity and scaling options further enhances the simplicity and effectiveness of managing applications with Elastic Beanstalk.

Other options, while they may hold merit in different contexts within AWS, do not capture the primary design and operational efficiencies that Elastic Beanstalk provides.