Comparison Heroku vs Amazon Web Services

Heroku is a Salesforce company based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 2007. It is available as a Platform-as-a-Service. It offers a wide range of tools and services to empower developers to build high-performance websites along with applications for smartphones of different screen sizes. It offers support for widely used programming languages such as Node.js, Ruby, Java, PHP, Python, Scala, Go and Clojure. It offers services in the form of Heroku Postgres, Heroku Connect and Heroku Redi. It supports the use of third-party add-ons and open-source buildpacks. It also offers over 7000 Heroku Buttons designed for quick deployment.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud platform provided by Amazon that comes with a wide range of features. AWS has data centres all around the world that enables it to meet the requirements of its users. It provides the AWS user with a space to build applications innovatively without incurring additional costs. Currently, AWS has around 84 availability zones around the world. AWS is recognised for providing the most number of services compared to any other cloud provider. It comes with a secure AWS architecture and cloud computing environment. It has a rich set of cloud security tools and supports 90 security standards and compliance certifications.