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Eliminate need for local skillset and time to manage AWS resources directly. This is the main motivation for heroku. We would no longer need to maintain the ansible playbook at all. We would no longer need a “management”the “management” server that we have now trying to orchestrate our self-managed AWS. We would still be managing our S3 buckets directly in AWS, and maybe some other minor simple services, like
SESfor email delivery – much simpler AWS products.Heroku is a popular and high-quality product. It’s feature set, developer UI, documentation tend to be very good, and we found this true in our testing. It’s been around for a while, has many customers (often startup/ecommerce), specifically including other Rails apps, and is generally considered a top-of-the-line service.
Easier scaling
Heroku has no contract. And all billing is pro-rated to the minute. If we ever choose to shift our infrastructure yet again, we can switch at any time.
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