AWS Fargate vs Heroku comparison

The compared Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Heroku solutions aren't in the same category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #2 in CS , with an average rating of 8.5, and holds a 14.4% mindshare in the category. Heroku is ranked #15 in PSP , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 3.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Heroku users who would recommend it.

AWS Fargate

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100% willing to recommend

Heroku

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87% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Fargate

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

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Compute Service (2nd)

Heroku

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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PaaS Clouds (15th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Services solutions, they serve different purposes. AWS Fargate is designed for Compute Service and holds a mindshare of 14.4%, down 18.5% compared to last year.
Heroku, on the other hand, focuses on PaaS Clouds, holds 3.0% mindshare, up 2.1% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

Subrata Mukherjee

Senior Technical Architect; Head of Platform at Blenheim Chalcot IT Services India

Boost demand response with cost-efficient serverless architecture

We are a venture builder company, and if we select AWS for our product. Our design is based on a serverless architecture model. ECS Fargate is the most convenient way in terms of scalability, integration, and cost control Thanks to the serverless model and easy integration features, a few…

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Faizan Haider

Senior Software Engineer at Aldaim Solutions

Used for server deployment and provides auto maintenance of databases

Heroku is deployed on the cloud. We can deploy our private and public projects over at Heroku. Most of the time, when we are starting any new project from scratch, we have to implement our MVP for that project or the core idea. We are unsure how our traffic flow will go or the actual production environment requirements. We don't want to spend the most on the server sites, so then we can use it with our go-to plan for Heroku, and all the resources are available in the basic plan with the minimum expenses. So, it helps us to deploy and make our features available online at the minimum cost. Once we know our needs, we can add the professional add-ons and shift it to another platform. Heroku supports any resource listed in the marketplace. We just have to deploy our AI solutions, and Heroku can also support AI projects. I would recommend the solution to other users. I advise users not to purchase extra add-ons but to make scalable resources so that they can use all the resources efficiently. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"AWS Fargate is an easy-to-use tool to simplify setup. You only pay for the resources you use. If you need to quickly create, delete, or scale applications without managing resources like EC2 instances, Fargate is the best service to use."

"Fargate is beneficial for hosting our solutions and providing workflow management, creating legal documents, and delivering business intelligence."

"If you create your deployment with a good set of rules for how to scale in, you can just set it and forget it."

"Fargate itself is a stable product. We are quite satisfied with its performance."

"AWS Fargate automatically scales to meet demand, making it ideal for applications with variable workloads."

"The most valuable feature of AWS Fargate is its ease of use."

"AWS Fargate is a fully managed service, and it's very easy to use compared to other services like Elastic Beanstalk Service (EBS)."

"All AWS services allow me to manage a wide range of applications and services."

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"The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us."

"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."

"The product is stable."

"One of the best things about Heroku is that it is very easy and straightforward to deploy an application."

"I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards."

"The solution's most valuable feature is the auto maintenance of databases."

"What I found most valuable about this solution is that it's easy to use and integrate with GitHub actions."

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Cons

"The main area for improvement is the cost, which could be lowered to be more competitive with other major cloud providers."

"Service computing is not as straightforward compared to other computing services. It requires more effort to use effectively."

"There is a tool named Compose that helps in converting the Docker Compose file into a Kubernetes file. For ECS and Fargate, AWS reads a Dockerfile and helps with conversion. However, I am uncertain if it's ready for deployment after conversion."

"As I have not worked with Fargate extensively, I do not have any specific improvements."

"We faced challenges in vertically scaling our workload."

"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."

"There are features that could be added or enhanced."

"Sometimes, Fargate can be really hard to configure."

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"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."

"I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely."

"Heroku had an authentication problem a few months ago, but they solved it."

"They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more."

"Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure."

"Heroku should increase its slug size limits."

"The tool's configuration is complex."

"The pricing could be improved because scaling the database becomes costly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the price of AWS Fargate a four out of five."

"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."

"There is a standard fee for a processing unit, they call them "dynos," and then you pay for add-ons."

"I rate the tool's pricing a three out of ten."

"The price of Heroku could be less expensive."

"The tool is free."

"Its price is very good."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

Government

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Educational Organization

10%

University

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AWS Fargate?

The most valuable feature of Fargate is that it's self-managed. You don't have to configure your own clusters or deploy any Kubernetes clusters. This simplifies the initial deployment and scaling p...

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What needs improvement with AWS Fargate?

The monitoring capabilities of AWS Fargate could be improved and made more robust. The error handling aspect sometimes causes issues and can get stuck during deployment, making the process not very...

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What advice do you have for others considering AWS Fargate?

I would recommend AWS Fargate as an alternative to AWS Lambda for running loads or hosting a service. It is a good service for keeping instances running, which minimizes initial latency. Overall, I...

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What do you like most about Heroku?

I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards.

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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 ...

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What is your primary use case for Heroku?

We use the solution for web applications and web APIs.

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Overview

A new compute engine that enables you to use containers as a fundamental compute primitive without having to manage the underlying instances. With Fargate, you don’t need to provision, configure, or scale virtual machines in your clusters to run containers. Fargate can be used with Amazon ECS today, with plans to support Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) in the future.

Fargate has flexible configuration options so you can closely match your application needs and granular, per-second billing.

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Established in 2007, Heroku is a cloud application platform providing a streamlined, efficient place for web app developers to create and deploy their applications. Heroku is designed to maximize developer productivity. With the entire web application development process available on the Herokucloud, creating and rolling out web apps has been made more efficient, convenient, and cost-effective than ever before.

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