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AWS Fargate vs Heroku comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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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 (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Services solutions, they serve different purposes. AWS Fargate is designed for Compute Service and holds a mindshare of 9.5%, down 15.0% compared to last year.
Heroku, on the other hand, focuses on PaaS Clouds, holds 3.5% mindshare, up 2.7% since last year.
Compute Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Fargate9.5%
Amazon EC212.5%
AWS Lambda12.0%
Other66.0%
Compute Service
PaaS Clouds Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Heroku3.5%
Microsoft Azure14.5%
Amazon AWS13.6%
Other68.4%
PaaS Clouds
 

Featured Reviews

JG
Head of Infrastructure at Teamcore
Flexibility in workload accommodation and supportive user experience drive efficiency
Currently, I think that the program is great the way it is, and maybe we use less than 50% of the current features of the platform. For example, we have been evaluating Dask with Python to work with distributed processing, and I don't know if AWS Fargate could be used to build Dask clusters, which would be great because there are many people on our team working with Python workloads. Having something that can manage distributed processing using Dask in a containerized deployment could be valuable. For a company that does not require complexity or managing Kubernetes clusters, AWS Fargate is a great way to go with the use of containers in a simple way, providing the power of containers and scalability without the complexity of going into Kubernetes.
Faizan Haider - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Fargate is beneficial for hosting our solutions and providing workflow management, creating legal documents, and delivering business intelligence."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Fargate is its ability to run on demand without the constant run time of basic resources."
"What I find best about AWS Fargate is that compared to deploying containers on EC2, where we need to check everything manually such as uptime, error logs, and other issues, AWS Fargate manages all these aspects automatically."
"If you create your deployment with a good set of rules for how to scale in, you can just set it and forget it."
"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 process."
"AWS Fargate automatically scales to meet demand, making it ideal for applications with variable workloads."
"Fargate itself is a stable product. We are quite satisfied with its performance."
"AWS Fargate offers flexibility in making services available as needed based on the number of compute instances scheduled, and it provides an easy and convenient way to scale services according to demand."
"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the auto maintenance of databases."
"The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."
"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."
"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 platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us."
"Deploying with git, npm install git hook ... basically, they got it right for nodejs servers hosting."
"I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards."
 

Cons

"They need to improve some UI-based interaction."
"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."
"There could be improvements for AWS Fargate regarding cost as it is expensive compared to running on EC2."
"There are features that could be added or enhanced."
"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."
"As I have not worked with Fargate extensively, I do not have any specific improvements."
"AWS Fargate needs improvement in terms of setup complexity."
"We faced challenges in vertically scaling our workload."
"We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert."
"Slow restart on servers"
"Heroku had an authentication problem a few months ago, but they solved it."
"Heroku should increase its slug size limits."
"I had an issue recently where my site was down intermittently for unknown reasons. I posted a ticket and 5 days have gone by without any resolution."
"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."
"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."
"It's pricing is a little high and could be lowered."
 

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."
"I rate the tool's pricing a three out of ten."
"Its price is very good."
"There is a standard fee for a processing unit, they call them "dynos," and then you pay for add-ons."
"The tool is free."
"The price of Heroku could be less expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
16%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
University
7%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
University
9%
Educational Organization
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
 

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...
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 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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