Sold by: Business Compass LLC
AWS Advanced Consulting Partner delivering structured, phased Heroku-to-AWS migrations with containerization, CI/CD modernization, and cost optimization for growing teams.
Overview
Heroku to AWS Migration - Act Before Platform Limitations Impact Your Growth
In early 2026, Salesforce shifted Heroku into a maintenance/sustaining engineering model, halting major feature innovation and ending sales of new Heroku Enterprise contracts. While existing applications continue to run, Heroku is no longer positioned as a strategic growth platform.
For organizations relying on Heroku for mission-critical workloads, this shift introduces limited innovation roadmap, reduced enterprise support options, uncertainty for long-term scalability, increasing compliance and security gaps, and rising platform costs relative to AWS-native alternatives.
Now is the time to modernize.
Business Compass LLC, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, provides structured, low-risk migration from Heroku to AWS - enabling full infrastructure control, improved scalability, stronger compliance posture, and long-term cost optimization.
Why Migrate Now?
- Strategic Risk Mitigation - Heroku is no longer evolving at the pace required for modern cloud-native workloads. AWS offers continuous innovation across AI, serverless, containers, data, analytics, and security.
- Enterprise Compliance and Control - AWS provides VPC-level networking, IAM fine-grained security, private networking, and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI, FedRAMP-ready architectures).
- Cost Optimization - AWS enables right-sized compute, auto scaling, Spot workloads, Graviton optimization, storage tiering, and reserved capacity.
- AI and Data Expansion - Align your infrastructure with Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, Redshift, OpenSearch, and the full AWS analytics stack.
What We Migrate
- Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, PHP applications
- Heroku Postgres to Amazon RDS / Aurora
- Heroku Redis to Amazon ElastiCache
- Background workers and Heroku Scheduler to EventBridge / Lambda
- File storage to Amazon S3
- Add-ons replaced with AWS-native services
- CI/CD modernization via CodePipeline or GitHub Actions
Target AWS Architectures
Option 1 - Container Modernization: Amazon ECS or EKS, ALB + Auto Scaling, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache, S3, CloudWatch, WAF + Shield.
Option 2 - Serverless Transformation: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB or Aurora Serverless, S3 + CloudFront, EventBridge, Step Functions.
Option 3 - Optimized EC2 Deployment: EC2 Auto Scaling, RDS, Infrastructure as Code, CodePipeline / GitHub Actions.
Our Structured Migration Approach
Phase 1 - Readiness and Risk Assessment (Typical: 1-2 weeks) Application dependency mapping, add-on gap analysis, database migration planning, downtime minimization strategy, and cost comparison (Heroku vs AWS).
Phase 2 - AWS Architecture Design (Typical: 1-2 weeks) Well-Architected design, security hardening plan, HA/DR blueprint, and observability design.
Phase 3 - Migration Execution (Typical: 2-6 weeks depending on complexity) Infrastructure provisioning (CloudFormation / Terraform), database migration via AWS DMS or replication, containerization (if applicable), CI/CD setup, and DNS cutover with rollback strategy.
Phase 4 - Optimization and Modernization (Typical: 1-2 weeks) Performance tuning, autoscaling configuration, cost optimization review, security validation, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
Scope and Prerequisites
Prerequisites: Existing AWS account (or willingness to create one), application source code access, Heroku credentials for dependency audit, and a designated technical point of contact on your team.
Exclusions: Full monolith-to-microservices rewrites, non-Heroku workloads, and custom application feature development are outside the standard engagement scope.
Handoff Artifacts: Infrastructure as Code repository, architecture decision records, runbooks, CI/CD pipeline documentation, and operational knowledge transfer sessions delivered to your DevOps team.
Get Started
Begin with a free Heroku to AWS Readiness Assessment at https://heroku-migration.businesscompassllc.com/ to scope your migration and receive a tailored architecture recommendation.
Highlights
- AWS Advanced Consulting Partner with a structured, four-phase migration methodology designed specifically for Heroku workloads. Our approach includes readiness assessment, architecture design, migration execution, and post-migration optimization - each phase with defined deliverables, rollback strategies, and knowledge transfer to your team. We specialize in mapping Heroku add-ons, dynos, and Postgres databases to their optimal AWS-native equivalents.
- Enterprise-grade AWS architectures with VPC isolation, IAM fine-grained access control, encryption at rest and in transit, AWS WAF, Shield, and compliance-ready designs supporting HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI, and FedRAMP frameworks. Your migration includes security hardening plans and HA/DR blueprints tailored to your compliance requirements - capabilities that go beyond what Heroku's shared infrastructure can provide.
- Multiple target architecture options - Container Modernization (ECS/EKS), Serverless Transformation (Lambda/API Gateway), or Optimized EC2 - selected based on your application profile and growth trajectory. Each option includes CI/CD modernization, auto-scaling configuration, Graviton optimization, and reserved capacity planning to reduce infrastructure costs compared to Heroku dyno-based pricing at scale.
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Business Compass LLC provides dedicated support throughout your Heroku to AWS migration engagement and during the post-migration stabilization period.
During Engagement: You will be assigned a dedicated technical lead who serves as your primary point of contact throughout all four migration phases. Communication is maintained through scheduled check-ins and direct access to your migration team.
Post-Migration Support: Following the completion of Phase 4 (Optimization and Modernization), your team receives full documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer sessions to ensure operational independence on AWS.
Getting Started: To schedule a consultation or discuss your migration needs, visit https://businesscompassllc.com/schedule-appointment
For migration readiness assessment and scoping, use our self-service tool at https://heroku-migration.businesscompassllc.com/
If you experience any issues with the engagement or need to discuss scope adjustments, contact your assigned technical lead directly through the communication channel established during onboarding.