Migrate from Heroku

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.

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.

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.

We wanted to move off of Heroku because of increasing costs, whilst maintaining Heroku’s ergonomics. After a lengthy discovery process, we ultimately chose Porter and have been thoroughly rewarded by that decision. The team ensured a smooth migration and was a treat to work with. We’re now saving a significant amount of money on infrastructure, have removed a number of arbitrary Heroku constraints, and most importantly, have maintained a phenomenal developer experience.

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.

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.

Working with Porter has been great! Way more powerful than Heroku and much easier than working with AWS directly. Gives you the power of a dev-ops team from a dashboard.

Migrating from Heroku to Porter on AWS was incredibly simple! I love that our infra is still on AWS which allows us to use our server credits. And we can manage it through AWS if needed, but all without the setup cost and architecture designing. Highly recommend for fast builders, and they have fantastic support.

We love that we can run Porter on top of our current cloud infrastructure and continue to use our existing cloud credits. With Porter, we get the ease-of-use of Heroku, the flexibility of our own cloud, and the scalability of Kubernetes. Porter is like OpenShift for startups.