nothing's wrong with it (although it's expensive). I think the point was the Heroku is a service built on top of EC2. Switching from Amazon EC2 to Heroku isn't

nothing's wrong with it (although it's expensive). I think the point was the Heroku is a service built on top of EC2. Switching from Amazon EC2 to Heroku isn't switching your platform at all... it's just paying for convenience. Personally I think Heroku's convenience is worth the difference. The question is more if the base EC2 pricing (which Heroku adds to) is worth it for your needs.