Just in case any folks are thinking about switching and wondering where else to go, there have generally been 2 alternatives: - Another PaaS - people love render, Railway, Vercel. Heroku is still best-in-class even if not free. Replit has a PaaS built in now too that is getting very real. - Going to the raw cloud e.g. AWS or GCP. As much as folks say that terraform or pulumi or CDK has made this easy, it's just really not the same thing to get a great developer experience without a ton of work.

There's a new class of tools emerging that represents a 3rd way. withcoherence.com (I'm a cofounder) gives you the preview environments, built-in pipelines, and friendly UX that Vercel has set the standard with, while operating against your GCP or AWS account. Lock-in, uptime, service diversity, compliance, and pricing are all better on AWS/GCP than a PaaS. Coherence even adds a built-in Cloud IDE, giving you a gitpod or github codespace alternative with zero additional config or integration work.

Most of the "PaaS in your own cloud" category is a pile of kubernetes abstraction. Coherence is something different, that represents a real alternative for teams that are used to a great workflow, but who don't want to invest the time to glue together open source and IaaS, or who aren't a fit for enterprise grade CNCF-based tooling.

If anyone wants to check it out more or has any questions, happy to answer them or to help with migrations - just hit up hn@withcoherence.com!