Personally, I really fell out of love with Heroku when reading their justification for not providing VPC compatibility. https://discussion.heroku.com/t/deploy-

Personally, I really fell out of love with Heroku when reading their justification for not providing VPC compatibility. https://discussion.heroku.com/t/deploy-failure-from-heroku-ec2-security-group-change/324 https://discussion.heroku.com/t/deploy-failure-from-heroku-e... In short, Heroku thinks that firewalls encourage people to be lazy about security, and leaves people crippled if the firewall is exposed. Due to this philosophical difference, they would rather force everyone to rely on SSL for all secure communication, and leave every machine accessible to the internet, including (for example) your database server.