Why Migrate from Heroku to AWS?

While Heroku simplifies application deployment by packaging AWS infrastructure into easy-to-use solutions, it can struggle to meet the demands of growing businesses. Organizations in a growth phase or those expecting to scale further may find Heroku's platform increasingly restrictive. For example, Heroku only supports a limited set of programming languages and lacks support for Windows-based workloads. Additionally, as your application scales, the costs associated with running multiple dynos can quickly become unsustainable. AWS, on the other hand, provides a flexible and cost-effective environment where you only pay for what you use. AWS offers a broader range of services, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). This enables organizations to build and scale applications without the constraints imposed by Heroku. AWS's global infrastructure, which spans multiple regions, also provides better reliability and performance than Heroku's more limited regional availability.

Benefits

Migrating from Heroku to AWS offers significant advantages, including enhanced flexibility, control, cost efficiency, and scalability. AWS, as one of the world's largest and most widely adopted cloud platforms, provides a comprehensive suite of infrastructure, platform, and software services tailored to support large-scale and complex applications. AWS unlocks your applications' full potential with unmatched scalability and flexibility. Its extensive service portfolio and global infrastructure allow your applications to grow beyond Heroku's limitations. Additionally, AWS’s advanced security features, customizable network configurations, and pay-as-you-go pricing model create a more robust and cost-effective environment for cloud deployments. While AWS may introduce some complexity compared to Heroku's straightforward setup, the long-term benefits—including scalability, flexibility, and support for future growth—make the transition well worth it.

Our Process

• Assess & Mobilize: We assess your infrastructure and data architecture using tools like the Cloud Adoption Framework and in-depth sessions to determine the best migration path. We'll then bridge any readiness gaps, build an AWS environment mirroring your Heroku setup with pre-configured tools, and equip your staff with the necessary AWS skills.
• Migrate & Modernize: Our Terraform infrastructure streamlines your migration by automating AWS provisioning to replicate your Heroku setup. Our database replication tool ensures seamless data transfer, minimizing downtime, reducing manual effort, and simplifying the process.

Used services

In our marketplace offer, we prefer utilizing Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Beanstalk, or App Runner for server application deployment. For static websites, our preference is simple frontend hosting using CloudFront and Simple Storage Buckets (S3), but managed services like Amplify are also available. Data storage can vary based on the actual implementation, but SQL databases are very common; we recommend using AWS Aurora or RDS instances to find the right configuration to become cost-efficient, reliable, and performant at the same time. Our approach contains setups for AWS Organizations' account strategy and security service configuration to reach the compliance requirements (optional). We are generally flexible in the implementation and encourage our partners to figure out the solution together!

“Migrating from Heroku to AWS transformed BoomPay. We achieved SOC2 compliance with AWS Config in under two months, boosting our security and monitoring. The seamless transition gave us robust security, scalability, and control for future growth.” —Kirill Moizik Co-Founder & CTO, BoomPay