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Reading this made me sad. I’ve wondered for a long time why no one ever bothered to build a Heroku for AWS.

My main complaint as an application developer these last few years is the amount of time I’ve had to spend wrangling infrastructure.

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I think the issue is cost. Heroku, which is itself on top Of AWS, is expensive exactly because it has to charge a significant premium over AWS to work (although it is still overpriced). That’s where Render.com and Fly will succeed, by running on their own hardware they can save significantly over running on AWS. I don’t think it’s possible to build a PAAS on top of AWS, the OP with the I/PAAC would though as they aren’t trying to add a business service layer.

> “why no one ever bothered to build a Heroku for AWS”

You realize Heroku has always run on AWS. Heroku is the “Heroku for AWS”.

Yup, fully aware.

Should’ve said “Heroku-like” instead of “Heroku for AWS”.

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