IMHO, it's best to see Empire/Deis/Dokku/etc. as a mean to an end, not the end itself. While Empire itself may be tied to AWS, your app is still a portable, 12

IMHO, it's best to see Empire/Deis/Dokku/etc. as a mean to an end, not the end itself. While Empire itself may be tied to AWS, your app is still a portable, 12-factor, Heroku-compatible app. You can run it elsewhere.