As much as I like this tooling and the features that Heroku offers it disturbs me that I have to pay $15,000 a month to get more than 99% uptime SLA. To me it

As much as I like this tooling and the features that Heroku offers it disturbs me that I have to pay $15,000 a month to get more than 99% uptime SLA. To me it is unacceptable to see "max 1 hour downtime" and "max 15 minutes downtime" on plans that cost way more than running your own database on cloud instances from other providers. For reference on AWS I'm running two m3.xlarge instances in an automated failover database cluster that so far has >99.95% uptime for the past year, and it only costs about $400 a month. Meanwhile to get automated failover and a database equivalent to an m3.xlarge you have to pay $1,200 a month on Heroku, and that could still reach 15 minutes of downtime per month.