[valenterry]

So what, the suggestion is to go with Heroku instead?

I think fargate + docker is super easy to setup, run and maintain. Maybe Heroku makes it a little bit easier, but that's about it. Once you leave the Heroku ecosystem you'll have lost all the time you saved.

I'm not convinced.

[arcbyte]

I spent a few evenings going the ECS route and the complexity and cost of just a single api available to the internet and a database kept ballooning to way more than what I wanted to pay for and deal with.

Fargate, image repo, NAT gateway, I don't even remember all the nonsense at this point but it was ridiculous.

I took a look at a few alternatives and DigitalOcean's App service was night and day easier, faster, and cheaper to deal with.

[valenterry]

Interesting, have never tried out DigitalOcean. Maybe I should.