Evaluate deployment of service on Heroku vs Amazon EC2

codeforsanjose / courtbot

People need help to not miss a court date. This is a lightweight app for notifications that can be integrated with any county's data.

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Evaluate deployment of service on Heroku vs Amazon EC2 #7

Open ying1 opened 2 years ago

ying1 commented 2 years ago

Part of court bot from Tulsa is deployed on Heroku. We need to understand - between Heroku and Amazon EC2 We'll be deploying a server (REST services) - for an indefinite amount of time, and also likely a database instance that would be needed.

[ ] Cost of deployment - server & database
[ ] Ease of deployment
[ ] Configuration and deployment options that fits our needs

ying1 commented 2 years ago

@schmidtty - please take a look. I am unable to assign this task to you for some reason.

schmidtty commented 2 years ago

Heroku - Cost of Deployment

Heroku

sits on top of AWS
is a container-based [ platform as a service (PaaS) ]
containers are called dynos
has a reasonable learning curve--ease of use, fast and easy deployment
has a suite of free resources
cost comparison may vary depending on the use case
Heroku might often be more cost-effective when/if time is factored in to cost of deployment and the ability to rapidly incorporate changes/improvements