We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Heroku based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution can scale well."
"Provisioning and resource administration include billing dashboards, which are very extensive."
"The features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"The environment is a rich playground, and if you tried to do the same things on-premises that you do on AWS, it would be a lot more challenging to execute. You can open up a virtual machine on AWS, run some experiments, and be done with it. It's much easier than buying new servers, provisioning them, etc"
"We pretty much like everything and we are excited about the seamless capability the EC2 service is offering."
"We can easily upgrade and downgrade the Instance."
"It has a dynamic scaling capacity which is very helpful."
"It's very easy to use."
"I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards."
"It's easy to push a change and to deploy new things."
"We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites."
"What I found most valuable about this solution is that it's easy to use and integrate with GitHub actions."
"Valuable for us was the fast deployment. This means the time to market is improved without pain for developers."
"One of the best things about Heroku is that it is very easy and straightforward to deploy an application."
"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."
"The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us."
"It is difficult to hand over legacy applications when migrating them to the cloud."
"In some areas, more transparency on what is persistent towards novice users."
"The dashboard can be improved a little bit to provide more information."
"One of the problems that I have seen is that some of the products are not as mature as others."
"The price could be better."
"Identity and access management on AWS could be straightforward."
"There's a huge cost for support."
"One area that could be improved is in data management. They could improve on the data side. For example, I see others with better cloud services and larger data computing capabilities."
"We don't find the pipelines intuitive. The user experience could be better. Having to set up multiple apps, then a pipeline, seems like an overkill on the amount of work to do."
"Their support is good, but they can improve their response time."
"They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more."
"The tool's configuration is complex."
"We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert."
"I improved the application performance by monitoring and adjusting the cleaner configuration to help set better lightweight limits on containers that run the app instances."
"We have to do daily restarts of some processes, which is annoying, and the support for custom CI could be better."
"I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in PaaS Clouds with 250 reviews while Heroku is ranked 13th in PaaS Clouds with 27 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Heroku is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Heroku writes "Useful for mobile and web applications, and helps with rapid development cycle ". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Heroku is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Google App Engine, OpenShift and Engine Yard Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Heroku report.
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