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 product is reliable and quite stable."
"The availability is good, you can get any service you need immediately."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"The most valuable features I have found are the Database Migration Service (DMS) for monitoring the host and routing, Route 53, and EC2 tools. The DMS is not available in any other solution that I am aware of. They have a very flexible and professional solution."
"They integrate well with various other solutions."
"The stability is magnificent, it's spectacular."
"In general, Amazon's performance is good."
"It is easy to use."
"The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us."
"It's easy to push a change and to deploy new things."
"What I found most valuable about this solution is that it's easy to use and integrate with GitHub actions."
"The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."
"I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards."
"Valuable for us was the fast deployment. This means the time to market is improved without pain for developers."
"We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites."
"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."
"Price can always be cheaper."
"Could be more user friendly and include additional applications."
"Its interface could be better because there are so many services right now in the product that it is quite difficult to navigate around in this. Its interface could be a subject of improvement."
"Identity and access management on AWS could be straightforward."
"In a future release, I would like to see more support for AI because it is the future."
"Amazon AWS could be improved by lowering the general storage price."
"The price could be better."
"One problem is that the AWS public cloud doesn't have shared storage capabilities. The second thing is the cloud performance versus on-prem."
"Their support is good, but they can improve their response time."
"Heroku had an authentication problem a few months ago, but they solved it."
"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."
"Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure."
"They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more."
"We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert."
"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 have to do daily restarts of some processes, which is annoying, and the support for custom CI could be better."
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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