[nkotov]

This thread will be filled with a ton of alternatives suggesting a "heroku-like experience" on top of some other cloud provider. My honest opinion, don't waste your time with these "shortcuts". Just use the cloud providers directly.

[zoomzoom]

Would love to hear more about why you think that is the case. For example Cloud Run on GCP is one of the best developer experiences in the cloud provider world, yet still has some key issues (some are solved by Herkou and some aren't). For example: - long-running workers, crons (they're just fixing this in beta with jobs but still has a lot of limits) - ability to get a shell to run arbitrary commands (e.g. SSH) - having multiple environments, auto-configuration of sql/redis connections for each, secrets for each. - Then if you're doing a "real" production-grade app you have to deal with how you orchestrate multiple cloud run instances behind a load balancer (e.g. frontend/backend) and all the DNS/SSL/VPC configuration here - how you deal with CI/CD across multiple environments (e.g. staging/branch previews) for multiple services, both in terms of configuring CI appropriately and in terms of which services trigger which jobs - matching up deployed envs with dev environments

ECS or App Runner on AWS has many of the same issues. 100% agree that many of the k8s-based environment automation solutions are a mismatch for a Heroku replacement. But I do believe there is room for tools that help solve these problems on top of cloud providers (disclosure, working on one at withcoherence.com...)

[mrkurt]

Good thing we (Fly.io) are a cloud provider you can just use directly. :)