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 main reason why we use EC2 is because we are not dependent on maintaining the hardware inside our premises. Also, we have full control over the infrastructure, and we can modify it as per our own requirements."
"I am very impressed by the solution's stability."
"One of the features offered is scalability on demand."
"The features with Amazon AWS that I have found most valuable are its flexibility and high availability. These are the most important and attractive points for me."
"It has a dynamic scaling capacity which is very helpful."
"It streamlines tasks like table creation and data loading into Redshift, making the process more efficient and manageable."
"Amazon AWS has a better portfolio. They have an impressive technology and service portfolio."
"I like the auto-scaling functionality and compliance requirements, whichever they are requesting."
"What I found most valuable about this solution is that it's easy to use and integrate with GitHub actions."
"One of the best things about Heroku is that it is very easy and straightforward to deploy an application."
"The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us."
"The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."
"Valuable for us was the fast deployment. This means the time to market is improved without pain for developers."
"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."
"We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites."
"It's easy to push a change and to deploy new things."
"The solution could offer better integration capabilities."
"The IEM (Infrastructure Event Management) appears to be complicated, specifically cross-account resource permissions."
"Monthly costs can be high if you don't maintain your usage"
"AWS support could be better."
"The solution can get to be a little expensive."
"The sorting model in AWS is a little bit complicated. When you are going through any component, you can get some surprising results."
"I don't have complaints. Previously, we asked for more end-to-end workshops, examples, and tutorials and these have been added and improved."
"There's a huge cost for support."
"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."
"We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert."
"Their support is good, but they can improve their response time."
"I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely."
"Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure."
"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."
"The tool's configuration is complex."
"They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more."
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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