I stopped reading the docs almost immediately when right away they indicated I had to paste (and more importantly understand) a massive piece of text for AWS IA

I stopped reading the docs almost immediately when right away they indicated I had to paste (and more importantly understand) a massive piece of text for AWS IAM. If that's the starting point, it's a poor introduction. I'm still interested, but dokku is still the gold standard for a Heroku replacement for me.