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AWS and Heroku aren't really competitors. Firstly, since AWS is IaaS, whereas Heroku is PaaS, they target different users. More importantly, Heroku is built on
by eyuelt 11y ago
AWS and Heroku aren't really competitors. Firstly, since AWS is IaaS, whereas Heroku is PaaS, they target different users. More importantly, Heroku is built on top of AWS, so Amazon gets paid for all the resources used by Heroku apps.
- anindyabd 11y agoAWS has Elastic Beanstalk, which is a Heroku competitor.
- riffraff 11y agoAWS' RDS offer also directly competes with heroku's Postgres packages
- derefr 11y agoSort of. They're still targeted at different users, though. Heroku is for individual developers to directly develop their app in terms of. AWS, meanwhile, is mostly for enterprises: it's a "virtual datacenter" for your (much-reduced) ops team to manage in place of a real datacenter. In that sense, Elastic Beanstalk is not a service that AWS provides developers—it's a service that AWS provides your ops team to provide to in turn provide to your developers.
- abrookewood 11y agoNot strictly true. Elastic Beanstalk is PaaS.