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AWS Fargate vs Heroku comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Fargate
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Compute Service (3rd)
Heroku
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Services solutions, they serve different purposes. AWS Fargate is designed for Compute Service and holds a mindshare of 10.1%, down 14.1% compared to last year.
Heroku, on the other hand, focuses on PaaS Clouds, holds 3.0% mindshare, down 3.2% since last year.
Compute Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Fargate10.1%
AWS Lambda15.3%
Amazon EC213.7%
Other60.900000000000006%
Compute Service
PaaS Clouds Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Heroku3.0%
Amazon AWS13.5%
Microsoft Azure12.4%
Other71.1%
PaaS Clouds
 

Featured Reviews

Fedir Plotnikov - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Globant
Enables quick scaling and reduces infrastructure worries
The best thing about AWS Fargate is that I don't need to worry about the proper provisioning of infrastructure for my task, and it's very fast in terms of scaling my containers; it's much faster than other solutions. From using AWS Fargate, I see benefits such as scaling speed and no headache about the infrastructure provisioning.
Cristian-Molina - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer at Go Coeupas
Has a quick development cycle and continuous integration
The initial setup is straightforward. Heroku integrates well. You only have to push the code, and it automatically deploys the new version. Whether you have permission depends on the application. Currently, I have one application that I deploy myself. I rate the initial setup a nine out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Fargate itself is a stable product. We are quite satisfied with its performance."
"AWS Fargate has definitely impacted our organization positively because before that, we couldn't accommodate the workload requirements as flexibly as we can with Fargate."
"The most valuable feature is the complete independence of doing administrative courses for your deployment."
"Its scalability and serverless nature make it a perfect hosting solution as it manages the scalability automatically when used with ECS, especially with the consistent process for deploying new solutions."
"AWS Fargate is an Amazon-managed service for Kubernetes that provides a nice out-of-the-box pre-packaged solution for deploying, with good integration with EKS and container registry, making it an easy way to use the AWS Kubernetes service."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Fargate is its ease of use."
"If you create your deployment with a good set of rules for how to scale in, you can just set it and forget it."
"It allows for focusing on applications instead of managing infrastructure."
"One of the best things about Heroku is that it is very easy and straightforward to deploy an application."
"The product is stable."
"Easy, fast, fun, and extendable."
"The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."
"We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites."
"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."
"I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards."
"It is easy to deploy applications, and we don't need to bother about software updates on the server. We don't need to bother about machines, servers, and hardware. We only need to care about the system and functionality that we need or want to develop. They take care of everything else. It provides high availability. It is a pretty good solution that provides everything that we need. It has everything that we need to run our applications. We have many different applications, and we generate three million bills for a company in Brazil. We see more than a billion requests per day in another application. Everything works just fine, and it is very good."
 

Cons

"AWS Fargate's security features weren't the most important criteria or value we got from AWS Fargate."
"AWS Fargate needs improvement in terms of setup complexity."
"I would like to see enhanced faster application scaling and better integration with the elastic file system to unify storage volumes and improve the launch time of instances."
"Service computing is not as straightforward compared to other computing services. It requires more effort to use effectively."
"They need to improve some UI-based interaction."
"The error handling aspect sometimes causes issues and can get stuck during deployment, making the process not very clean."
"We would like to see some improvement in the process documents that are provided with this product, particularly for auto-scaling and other configuration tools that are a bit complicated."
"I heard from my team that it's not easy to predict the cost. That is the only issue we have with AWS Fargate, but I think that's acceptable. AWS Fargate isn't user-friendly. Anything related to Software as a Service or microservice architecture is not easy to implement. You're required to have DevOps from your side to implement the solution. AWS Fargate is just a temporary solution for us. When we grow to a certain level, we may use AKS for better control."
"I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely."
"We don't find the pipelines intuitive. The user experience could be better. Having to set up multiple apps, then a pipeline, seems like an overkill on the amount of work to do."
"Plugins aren't cheap (Mailchimp is $1.5/1000 emails)."
"But I recently got my account suspended because someone abused one of my apps."
"Heroku is pretty stable. We experience the occasional outages."
"Heroku should increase its slug size limits."
"Heroku had an authentication problem a few months ago, but they solved it."
"I improved the application performance by monitoring and adjusting the cleaner configuration to help set better lightweight limits on containers that run the app instances."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We would advise that this solution has a slightly-higher price point than others on the market. There is a free plan available for start-ups, but the free and lower range licensing models do not provide the full functionality."
"I rate the price of AWS Fargate a four out of five."
"There is a standard fee for a processing unit, they call them "dynos," and then you pay for add-ons."
"The tool is free."
"I rate the tool's pricing a three out of ten."
"Its price is very good."
"The price of Heroku could be less expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
16%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Educational Organization
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with AWS Fargate?
They need to improve some UI-based interaction.
What advice do you have for others considering AWS Fargate?
Using AWS Fargate is becoming easier as the platform improves. On a scale of 1-10, I rate AWS Fargate a 7.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Fargate?
The pricing is dependent on the load being run. AWS Fargate follows a pay-as-you-go model, which provides flexibility. The pricing details can be easily found on the AWS Fargate website.
What needs improvement with Heroku?
I don't like that the web server crashes every day, every 24 hours. The pricing could be improved because scaling the database becomes costly. The Docker features are not great. You cannot use any ...
What is your primary use case for Heroku?
We use the solution for web applications and web APIs.
What advice do you have for others considering Heroku?
The integration capabilities are great because of the quick integration and the management features. We don't need a lot of expertise and all external DevOps people. Heroku is the easiest platform ...
 

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