AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs. Heroku Platform

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

273 Reviews and Ratings

Heroku Platform

175 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS Elastic Beanstalk	Score7.3 out of 10	N/A	AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the platform-as-a-service offering provided by Amazon and designed to leverage AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).	$35 per month
Heroku Platform	Score9.2 out of 10	N/A	The Heroku Platform, now from Salesforce, is a platform-as-a-service based on a managed container system, with integrated data services and ecosystem for deploying modern apps. It takes an app-centric approach for software delivery, integrated with developer tools and workflows. It’s three main tool are: Heroku Developer Experience (DX), Heroku Operational Experience (OpEx), and Heroku Runtime. Heroku Developer Experience (DX) Developers deploy directly from tools like…	$85 per month

Pricing

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Heroku Platform

No Charge: $0
Users pay for AWS resources (e.g. EC2, S3 buckets, etc.) used to store and run the application.

Production: $25.00
per month
Advanced: $250.00
per month

Pricing Offerings
AWS Elastic Beanstalk	Heroku Platform
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	AWS Elastic Beanstalk	Heroku Platform
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Partha Roy Lead Product Engineer in Engineering at Fasal - Grow More, Grow Better™ (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk There are many services like AWS Elastic beanstalk, but there are none with the maturity in the platform or the cost-effectiveness of AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Also, AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the oldest among them, so there are more people with AWS experience than the other … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Jenkins Senior Systems Reliability Engineer in Corporate at The Walt Disney Company (Entertainment, 10,001+ employees) Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk I have used App Engine on Google Cloud Platform and App Service on Microsoft Azure. Both offer similar capabilities to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. App Engine has the nice ability to scale to 0 instances when the application has not been in use for some time. This allows for … Incentivized Helpful? Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology in Information Technology at Virtusa (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk The AWS platform provides a great deal of configurability that is abstracted and provided very well through AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This is the main reason for choosing Elastic Beanstalk over competing services. Another reason for selecting AWS Beanstalk was vendor … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Rout Software Developer in Information Technology at Blink Lending (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk We were already hosting on AWS so it just made sense to keep our infrastructure where we have it. And it all works pretty nicely. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS is much more focused on scalability, but Heroku was much easier to get things up and running as a beginner. For simple hosting, I would stick to something like Heroku or Netlify. That said, Elastic Beanstalk is meant for more performant functions requiring large scaling and … Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Dickson Director of Engineering in Engineering at NorthOut (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a great option for an organization that's already invested in the AWS ecosystem. The greater the number of complementary features needed by the application (e.g. integrating with Amazon's Elastic Load Balancer, databases, etc), the greater the reward … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk We also use Heroku and it is a great platform for smaller projects and light Node.js services, but we have found that in terms of cost, the Elastic Beanstalk option is more affordable for the projects that we undertake. The fact that it sits inside of the greater AWS Cloud … Incentivized Helpful? Brad Ranks Director of Technology in Information Technology at MeMD, Inc (Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees) Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk We ended up with AWS Lambda to take workload off the developers and develop in tandem, then later integrate. We use both though. Incentivized Helpful? Jordan Leano IT Manager in Information Technology at Modus Operandi (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees) Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk I selected these solutions because they are the closest to being able to set up separate server or VM instances. As far as performance and scalability, Heroku does offer an autoscale option, but the base cost to have the autoscale in place, sets Heroku behind EBS. Digital … Incentivized Helpful? Parikshith Malalur Jagadeesh Student in Engineering at Sjsu (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees) Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk Heroku is another similar product which we had tried out to deploy one of the NodeJs project and it has lot of developer friendly features as well. Though Heroku is more expensive than Beanstalk is what I found. Heroku also has some restrictions which can affect the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk The other main competitor that I have used would probably be Heroku. While Heroku is incredibly simple and easy to get a sample web app online, its dashboard and product connectivity didn't feel quite as seamless as AWS Elastic Beanstalk. AWS Elastic Beanstalk has a higher up … Incentivized Helpful?	Salesforce Ben Gelsey Co-Creator in Engineering at Flights Machine (Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 1-10 employees) Chose Heroku Platform To this day no other PaaS matches Heroku in ease of use and maturity. If you want to stay 100% focused on your unique product/service rather than wasting time on boilerplate hosting issues, I can highly recommend Heroku. I personally use it for all of my own websites … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Heroku Platform Heroku Platform is much faster to setup, easy to maintain and in terms of ROI makes more sense. Incentivized Helpful? Sagiv Frankel Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at WeWork (Internet, 10,001+ employees) Chose Heroku Platform Kuberbetes is an easily scalable docker based option which should need minimal DevOps, however, it has a pretty high learning curve with many decisions that need to be addressed as well as monitoring, logging and security concerns. Incentivized Helpful? Alec Dibble Lead Engineer in Engineering at Soothe (Consumer Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Heroku Platform Heroku, in my opinion, is the easiest platform to deploy and host web applications on. From collaboration to deployment, everything is well thought out and bulletproof. If you need advanced server functionality, like a VPC, machine-to-machine communication, etc., you will … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Rout Software Developer in Information Technology at Factory Inc. (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Heroku Platform Heroku is an all in 1 package for deploying and running your services. It provides an easy to use setup and run for 90% of cases. If you have a more complicated infrastructure, you'd definitely need to move to another hosting provider. But if as long as you can operate within … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Heroku Platform Heroku has advantages over Docker, Google App Engine and AWS products, but it depends largely on your use case. If you are already in AWS, it's probably in your best interest to stay with AWS products. However, other "Cloud Formation/Orchestration" products like Docker are … Incentivized Helpful? Miles Porter Co-Founder and Senior Consultant in Information Technology at Painted Harmony Group, Inc. (Consumer Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Heroku Platform Heroku is a much better choice for small prototyping and small to medium size sites. It is easier to use than most other services/platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Mark Hutter Software Engineer in Information Technology at Shipt (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Heroku Platform Rackspace can provide dedicated hardware, where Heroku can not. When dealing with particular clients or different fields, this can be a deciding factor if this is a requirement. AWS provides extensive configuration options, providing a more mature infrastructure, with dedicated … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Heroku Platform I primarily use Heroku and AWS. AWS in terms of large-scale scalability and production-grade application tools, cannot be beat. However, for small-scale apps it often provides too many feature/tools/options, unclear documentation, and hidden fees. AWS has great customer … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Heroku Platform

Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Heroku Platform
Feature	AWS Elastic Beanstalk 7.9 29 Ratings	Heroku Platform 8.1 43 Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces	8.119 Ratings	7.626 Ratings
Scalability	7.229 Ratings	8.343 Ratings
Platform management overhead	8.128 Ratings	7.642 Ratings
Workflow engine capability	7.223 Ratings	8.429 Ratings
Platform access control	8.128 Ratings	7.142 Ratings
Services-enabled integration	8.128 Ratings	8.141 Ratings
Development environment creation	7.228 Ratings	8.738 Ratings
Development environment replication	8.129 Ratings	8.737 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification	8.128 Ratings	8.241 Ratings
Issue recovery	9.126 Ratings	8.438 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes	8.127 Ratings	8.443 Ratings

User Ratings
	AWS Elastic Beanstalk	Heroku Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	7.2 (29 ratings)	7.0 (47 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.9 (2 ratings)	9.5 (6 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (10 ratings)	9.2 (17 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (12 ratings)	8.7 (19 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.0 (2 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)