Owner | Amazon Web services aka AWS is owned by Amazon.com | Heroku is owned by Salesforce.com |
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Hosted on | It is hosted on AWS servers | It hosted on proprietary servers |
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Types of Services | It offers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) | It offers Platform as a service (PaaS) |
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Database used | It uses Amazon RDS | It uses Heroku Postgres |
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Supported Architecture | Load balancer Platform, Database tier, Application tier. | Web server/load Balancer, Database tier. |
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Used by | Used by Medium Businesses and Large Enterprises | Used by Enterprise projects, Startups. |
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Complexity | It is a little sophisticated and is used by professionals. | It is easy and is recommended for beginners |
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Languages | It supports C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Node.js, Ruby, PHP, .NET, Python, Rust, and Swift | It supports Node.js, Clojure, Scala, PHP, and Python |
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Costing | AWS costs $0.013 per hour. | Heroku costs $0.05 per hour. |
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Infrastructure | AWS needs infrastructure management which is generally taken care of by the DevOps team. | Heroku doesn’t need infrastructure maintenance. |
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Companies using | Yesware, Toyota and Westfield etc | Airbnb, Coursera and Atlassian, etc. |
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