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."Easy to access and secure, two important features."
"It offers durability, high availability, fault tolerance, and a high TCO benefit."
"The ease of use is the biggest benefit."
"I have found the trusted advisor tool works well, we are using it to get some insight into the security status and the processing of the applications."
"Scalability is one of the biggest benefits we have."
"It is enough for us in terms of features. We don't have too many transactions, and it is sufficient for our current needs."
"The initial setup is not difficult and it did not take us more than one day."
"I like the storage, all the codes like Lambda and Amazon EMR."
"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."
"The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."
"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 is easy to deploy applications, and we don't need to bother about software updates on the server. We don't need to bother about machines, servers, and hardware. We only need to care about the system and functionality that we need or want to develop. They take care of everything else. It provides high availability. It is a pretty good solution that provides everything that we need. It has everything that we need to run our applications. We have many different applications, and we generate three million bills for a company in Brazil. We see more than a billion requests per day in another application. Everything works just fine, and it is very good."
"One of the best things about Heroku is that it is very easy and straightforward to deploy an application."
"I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards."
"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 problem with AWS is you have to keep up with the technology. If you don't stay up to date with the technology and its latest changes then you won't know what to use in your infrastructure."
"The solution can get to be a little expensive."
"The dashboard can be improved a little bit to provide more information."
"It has the technical support features, but they need to be improved. It has lots of users, but they need to be managed accordingly."
"Pricing is the one feature everyone wants AWS to improve."
"It should be easier to monitor the performance and generate analytic information so that we can determine how to provide better support for our clients."
"The customization could improve. However, it depends on the customization needed."
"They could lower the cost. The setup could also be easier."
"Their support is good, but they can improve their response time."
"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 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."
"The tool's configuration is complex."
"I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely."
"Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure."
"We have to do daily restarts of some processes, which is annoying, and the support for custom CI could be better."
"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 12th 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 Salesforce Platform. See our Amazon AWS vs. Heroku report.
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