So after some painful experience with AWS elastic beanstalk, here is my answer: (tl;dr we're switching to heroku).
From my point of view, with minimal experience on both platforms, it seems to me that Heroku requires less work from your part, things are more automated for you.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.