[ceejayoz]

What do you imagine their home-grown offering would have over using S3 directly?

[chrisseaton]

I thought the entire point of Heroku was that it wrapped up existing essential basic AWS offerings into a more manageable package?

I’d rather not have to manage a side account for AWS, and set up the connections to it and things. I’d rather it was just there, like their database.

[nicoburns]

A lot of AWS’s offerings are hard to use. But s3 really isn’t. There’s also firebase storage and backblaze b2 in this space. And they’re all easy to use standalone.

[jacobsenscott]

I suppose that's what this is https://elements.heroku.com/addons/bucketeer, but using S3 is really easy. And honestly I wouldn't trust most heroku addons are maintained outside of the most popular - postgres, redis, memcache.