Evaluate deployment of service on Heroku vs Amazon EC2

[ying1]

Part of court bot from Tulsa is deployed on Heroku. We need to understand - between Heroku and Amazon EC2
We'll be deploying a server (REST services) - for an indefinite amount of time, and also likely a database instance that would be needed.

• Cost of deployment - server & database
• Ease of deployment
• Configuration and deployment options that fits our needs

[ying1]

@schmidtty - please take a look. I am unable to assign this task to you for some reason.

[schmidtty]

Heroku - Cost of Deployment

Heroku

• sits on top of AWS
• is a container-based [ platform as a service (PaaS) ]
• containers are called dynos
• has a reasonable learning curve--ease of use, fast and easy deployment
• has a suite of free resources
• cost comparison may vary depending on the use case
• Heroku might often be more cost-effective when/if time is factored in to cost of deployment and the ability to rapidly incorporate changes/improvements