I'm in a situation like this as well, using Heroku but not happy with the performance on the Dynos and looking to move to EC2 (we already use our own databases

I'm in a situation like this as well, using Heroku but not happy with the performance on the Dynos and looking to move to EC2 (we already use our own databases etc hosted on EC2). The biggest issue is finding a solution which can give similar ease of use and functionality as Heroku. Doing a opsworks/chef setup like this isn't appealing - over time we want to have many microservices which can be scaled independently, and you don't want to be doing a lot of setup for each one. It's also complex to setup the kinds of scaling and rollbacks with git deploys like you can get on Heroku. Right now Deis or Flynn looks best, giving most of the advantages of Heroku, but they are also pretty immature. Deis only just got the ability to send logs to a syslog instance, and can't be upgraded without either building a new cluster and migrating across (lots of work), or doing a in-place upgrade, which could mean up to 10 mins of downtime. Flynn has no ability to send logs to an syslog server from what I can see, and seems even more immature than Deis, but looks like it might have a better technical foundation. I've also been evaluating Amazon's Elastic Container Service, but that is unfortunately also very immature - No load balancing integration yet and also no information on logging, rollbacks, etc. Elastic beanstalk is also interesting in a way, but we already have one app deployed on it using Docker and it's not great - logging is a kludge using a logger running in each container, and you either use your own docker repository (in which case you can't do rollbacks), or give them a zipfile with a Dockerfile and your app, which allows rollbacks but means the docker image gets built by every server in the cluster. It also doesn't seem to have any way of easily running and scaling multiple processes per app like you can with the Procfile on Heroku. Anybody else in a similar situation? It seems that there are a bunch of interesting projects that will be very competitive with Heroku soon, but nothing that's really matured yet. I wish Heroku would just introduce a new range of PX (running on their own EC2 instance) Dynos without the crazy pricing - right now the only PX dyno they have is $500 per month when you can get a substantially faster instance on EC2 for ~170 per month.