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Plus if you need a larger instance like a 7.5GB RAM instance, it's $800/month on Heroku vs $75/month for a reserved EC2 instance with comparable RAM. That's an
by jhaile 15y ago
Plus if you need a larger instance like a 7.5GB RAM instance, it's $800/month on Heroku vs $75/month for a reserved EC2 instance with comparable RAM. That's an astounding difference in price for cloud storage!
Of course, the real competition is other data-storage services like Amazon RDS, MongoHQ, MongoLab, etc. (all much cheaper)
(OK, so I excluded EBS costs from my EC2 comparison above but at $0.10/GB-month it's still going to be a huge difference for most cases)
- omfg 15y agoYour numbers are a bit off. It's more like 162 bucks a month for a comparable reserved EC2 instance. And 208 a month for a comparable reserved RDS instance. And that's of course with a 12 month commitment. You can't really compare EC2 to an offering like this because you're paying for the amount of time / labor costs it frees up. And of course RDS doesn't support Postgres so there's not a lot of competition at the moment.