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> I still can't understand why no one has create a "cheap" heroku.

AWS has tried several times, they'll eventually win this one though.

> AWS has tried several times

They have tried once, and it's called AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Not sure. Beanstalk is a very clumsy product and lacks the Elegance of heroku.

Elastic Beanstalk's Multi-container environment can be a nice way to ease a project into containerization, but it seems like it doesn't get much love from AWS these days. You're still forced to set hard memory limits on containers even though ECS support soft limits.

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