Migration Guide
Migrate from Heroku to AWS
Migrate from managed PaaS to AWS services (ECS, RDS, ElastiCache). Requires infrastructure setup.
What you get
Risk assessment
Blockers, warnings, and unknowns ranked by severity
Effort estimate
Hours, t-shirt size, and role breakdown
Cost estimate
Labor, infrastructure, and tooling cost range
Migration steps
Ordered execution plan with durations
Open questions
What still needs to be answered before you start
Draft config or code
Starter configs when the migration path supports it
Why teams migrate from Heroku to AWS
Good fit when
- +Teams that need deeper infrastructure control and custom networking.
- +Apps with enterprise compliance, IAM, and VPC requirements.
Strengths
- Broad service coverage for compute, data, networking, and security.
- Strong scalability patterns and mature operational tooling.
Tradeoffs
- Higher migration complexity and platform operations overhead.
- More architecture choices can slow early implementation.
Migration notes
- Map dynos/add-ons to AWS services before implementation.
- Decide compute model first (ECS Fargate, EKS, Lambda, or EC2).
- Plan DNS/SSL, secrets, and rollback runbooks for cutover.
How it works
Describe your migration
Select Heroku as source and AWS as target. Add context about your setup — configs, docs, architecture notes.
Keshro runs the analysis
Keshro researches the path, finds similar past migrations, and generates a structured assessment with risks, effort, cost, and steps.
Get your plan
Review the migration plan, refine it with your team, and use it as a living document during execution.
Resources
Related migrations
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