Our main goals when moving away from Heroku were to reduce cost, increase reliability, have good scalability, not hire a full time infra engineer, own the infrastructure to avoid vendor lock-in, and migrate fully over in under a week. I can reliably say that we have met and exceeded all of our criteria. Also, the Porter team has been one of the fastest, most responsive teams we have ever engaged with.

After 10 years on Heroku, Porter handled migrating our infrastructure from Heroku to AWS incredibly smoothly, without the high costs we were being quoted elsewhere. The Porter platform strikes the right balance between giving us the additional controls we wish we had with Heroku all along while orchestrating out much of the complexity of AWS. Add onto that their top-notch customer service, and it makes me wish we would have switched to Porter from Heroku years ago.

We started on Heroku but soon saw our costs balloon as we added more services and environments. We migrated to AWS ECS but ended up scratching it as ECS introduced unnecessary DevOps overhead for our engineers. Porter really hit the sweet spot for us, letting us keep the Heroku experience while taking advantage of AWS's cost and flexibility.

As a solo founder, Heroku was the obvious path to get going quickly and simply. But as the needs of our API grew, so did the price tag. We were stuck locked into Heroku and Salesforce, without a clear path out and no support. Porter came at the perfect (down)time and completely managed the migration. Now, I have support engineers right in my dedicated Slack channel.

Porter gave us Heroku-style automation on top of all the benefits of hosting in our own AWS, all without having to hire a single DevOps engineer. Kubernetes is purely an implementation detail on Porter, but it's also been great to tap into the existing ecosystem of vendors and add-ons.

We moved from Heroku to EKS with Porter. After talking to other companies that adopted Kubernetes, we realized managing Kubernetes on your own is a fool’s errand as a startup with shifting priorities. Porter allowed us to immediately get up and running with a production-ready environment without having to build anything internally. Our developers love the platform and the time we've saved has been substantial.

Porter is amazing. We were using Heroku to host our early product and quickly wanted to move to AWS. Porter made this super simple. Fast onboarding + their team was incredibly helpful in making the transition fast and worry-free.

I describe Porter as ‘Kubernetes for people who want the developer experience of Heroku.’ My team knows a little about K8s but not much, and are very happy with that. Porter offered the exact balance of convenience and flexibility we were looking for.

We were 6 years in with Heroku using every feature they had. We decided to go with Porter to combine our developers' love of Heroku with our Cloud Engineers' deep understanding of AWS. Justin and team have been very responsive to issues and have been great partners as we continue to expand our usage of Porter.