Migrating from Heroku to AWS

Migrating from Heroku to AWS: learn how one company successfully lifted and shifted their application to achieve greater control, flexibility, and cost savings, while minimizing risk and downtime.

Key takeaways

Heroku is a platform as a service, but migrating to AWS allows for more control and flexibility.
The company chose to lift and shift their application to AWS instead of trying to rewrite the code for the new platform.
The migration process was done in phases, with each step tested and validated before moving on to the next one.
Terraform was used to manage the infrastructure and configuration of the application in AWS.
The company had to manually manage secrets, such as passwords and environment variables, in Heroku, but AWS provides a built-in secrets manager.
The migration was done incrementally, with one environment at a time, to avoid downtime and minimum risk.
AWS provides more advanced features and tools for managing infrastructure and deployment, such as autoscaling and load balancing.
The company was able to reduce costs by about 30% after migrating to AWS.
The process of migrating to AWS was not without its challenges, and the company had to adapt and learn new tools and technologies.
The company has been able to achieve higher availability and better performance with AWS, with no downtime in the last nine months.
The migration was done with a focus on minimizing risk and downtime, with the company being careful to test and validate each step before moving on to the next one.
The company has been able to take advantage of the more advanced features and tools available in AWS, such as autoscaling and load balancing.
The migration was done in a way that allowed the company to maintain control and flexibility, while still taking advantage of the benefits of the AWS platform.

Migrating from Heroku to AWS

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