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Comment by maxehmookau | Hacker News Reader

You're a brave person. As you say, Heroku has spoiled me and Elastic Beanstalk is a pile of trash. I'm usually an AWS evangelist, but I run as far and as fast as possible from EB. Configuring it for anything other than the most basic of use cases is a massive headache. Even AWS itself offers much better PaaS-style solutions like OpsWorks.

IMO, stick with Heroku if you want a PaaS.

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Echoing this. Heroku is still such a treat, super reliable, and communicates when issues arise. I've even gotten support via reddit from them. I do like seeing things like this though in the event Heroku goes away. Being able to spin up a clone quickly with another service is good to have in the back pocket.

My thoughts and sentiment completely. It is just not worth my time and Heroku has proven to be reliable platform over the years. It is simple, interface is familiar and easy to onboard new people to.

Does anyone know how Heroku and Elastic Beanstalk compare with App Engine Flexible (ie, the one that runs an arbitrary docker container)? I can't believe how long ago Heroku nailed such a simple PaaS platform.

I've been an AWS evangelist because they are Not-Microsoft. But, after having to use Azure for the past 4 years where I'm at, I have to say that Azure's REAL portal (and naming scheme) is a LOT easier to navigate than Amazon's. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy who ran Linux on the desktop for 19 years, but they've leapt past Amazon on this piece. (I'm not even saying it's GOOD, just a lot better.)

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