Take a look at Convox, convox.com. It's an open source "PaaS" that runs in your own AWS account. It's a thin configuration layer for AWS. So you get easy acce

Take a look at Convox, convox.com. It's an open source "PaaS" that runs in your own AWS account. It's a thin configuration layer for AWS. So you get easy access to ECS for running your app servers at resource cost, then simple tooling for adding an RDS database, adding a Heroku Postgres URL to you app env, or adding to Papertrail. Full disclosure: I work on Convox full time.