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Heroku is one option for paying for a more expensive platform that will do for us some of the things the Systems Administrator position used to do. Heroku is also a significant cost. (estimated at around $980/month for our needs, but possibly anywhere between $660-$1240/month). Heroku will replace our existing AWS EC2 costs - eliminating approximately $150/month of AWS charges.
(More background at previous Heroku Consideration document, that led us to spend more time examining heroku Heroku as a solution).
The main trade-off of heroku Heroku is:
Elimination of operations and maintenance tasks formerly handled by systems administrator position, for
Significant budget, and in some cases increased challenge to remaining developers
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