[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Heroku to Beanstalk?
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       Ask HN: Heroku to Beanstalk?
        
       Hi All - Our stuff is on AWS except for: 1/ Postgres 2/ Rails 3/
       Hosting our React app  Since we're a small team, there is a lot we
       like about Heroku but would prefer to have one less moving part
       especially since Heroku has had reliability issues.  I'd love to
       know if you know of any deal breakers moving from Heroku to
       Beanstalk? Thank you!
        
       Author : r2sk5t
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2022-09-23 20:26 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
       | everfrustrated wrote:
       | It's certainly a valid option. The company I'm at did a migration
       | from Heroku to Beanstalk (manually created).
       | 
       | This was done because the lack of Infra/DevOps specialisation in
       | the company at the time and Beanstalk was the most similar
       | service to Heroku. Biggest change was dockerising.
       | 
       | Advantage is EB has a somewhat friendly UI so you can do
       | everything point and click if that's what you're used to with
       | Heroku.
       | 
       | Disadvantages are the docker support is an afterthought (which is
       | fair as EB predates docker). Trying to manage it through
       | terraform is quite clunky. Release rollouts aren't the quickest
       | (but depends on what you're used to). It works, is reliable, but
       | it's not the future and hard to attract talent to work with it
       | (doesn't make hiring any easier). AWS is maintaining and
       | supporting it but it's not getting any new feature development.
       | 
       | Now we have grown and have Infra specialists we're moving to ECS
       | fargate.
       | 
       | Using EB wasn't the path I'd have chosen for the company to take,
       | but it was probably the best one given our company
       | requirements/skills at the time. I don't regret it, but happy we
       | have the skills to move off it. We were very glad to have been
       | off Heroku when the recent security troubles became known. We
       | moved off because of Heroku's constant instability and our
       | increasing lack of confidence in them as a vendor. Which we were
       | sad about as we loved Heroku.
       | 
       | Your mileage may vary.
        
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