![]() As you can guess, again you have to navigate to different sides of the AWS dashboard to be able to get the metrics you want with the level of details you like, while still some metrics are available on the RDS page with limited options. Heroku provides very limited monitoring options out of the box which can be enough in many cases but as your use cases become complicated they definitely lack many metrics that can help you troubleshoot the system.ĪWS on the other hand gives you the ever growing CloudWatch metrics which can help you fine tune even the applications using that database based on the behaviour that becomes clear looking at the extensive metrics available to you. Heroku has simple options to create backups and restore the databases but again doesn't give you much control even on how long you want to retain the backups.ĪWS on the contrary gives you plenty of options or decision points from a different perspective but again it requires a good understanding of how RDS works and even knowing the fact that your RDS snapshots are stored on S3 can help you better understand the logic behind some behaviours. While this might sound appealing at first, we should consider that it comes at the price of increased complexity, meaning a lot more time to spend, and many more ways to take wrong decisions. On the other hand, AWS gives you heaps of options from deciding the VPC and subnets to setting the security groups, parameter groups and option groups. Heroku gives you way less options meaning way fewer decisions to be made, and faster progress knowing that lots of the decision Heroku takes for you are already descent decisions. This section is more of an analytical experience instead of quantitative comparison. Simplicity of use and operational overhead It's worth mentioning that all the pricing difference in AWS column is based on the extra pricing for the storage when Multi-AZ option is available, otherwise irrespective of the price and size RDS instances have all the features. *AWS 16 GB memory was the closest match to Heroku 15 GB memory
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