I just looked at this myself yesterday and Heroku offers free postgresql instance for under 10K rows. And decided to skip S3-like solutions by embedding my comp

I just looked at this myself yesterday and Heroku offers free postgresql instance for under 10K rows. And decided to skip S3-like solutions by embedding my compressed image to the DB[0]. Want 10k-10M rows? That's $9 a month. A bit steep, but easier than configuring DO instances. [0]: I know this is not best practice, but this is a small project and this is a hack that I fully know the tradeoffs for.