[layoric]

> $50 for a dyno with 1 GB of ram in 2025 is robbery

AWS isn't much better honestly.. $50/month gets you an m7a.medium which is 1 vCPU (not core) and 4GB of RAM. Yes that's more memory but any wonder why AWS is making money hand-over-fist..

[selcuka]

Not sure if it's an apples-to-apples comparison with Heroku's $50 Standard-2X dyno, but an Amazon Lightsail instance with 1GB of RAM and 2 vCPUs is $7/month.

[NohatCoder]

AWS certainly also does daylight robbery. In the AWS model the normal virtual servers are overpriced, but not super overpriced.

Where they get you is all the ancillary shit, you buy some database/backup/storage/managed service/whatever, and it is priced in dollars per boogaloo, you also have to pay water tax on top, and of course if you use more than the provisioned amount of hafnias the excess ones cost 10x as much.

Most customers have no idea how little compute they are actually buying with those services.

[bearjaws]

That is assuming you need that 1 core 24/7, you can get 2 core / 8gb for $43, this will most likely fit 90% of workloads (steady traffic with spikes, or 9-5 cadence).

If you reserve that instance you can get it for 40% cheaper, or get 4 cores instead.

Yes it's more expensive than OVH but you also get everything AWS to offer.

[troyvit]

This, plus as a backup plan going from Heroku to AWS wouldn't necessarily solve the problem, at least with our infra. When us-east-1 went down this week so did Heroku for us.

[electroly]

m7a doesn't use HyperThreading; 1 vCPU is a full dedicated core.

To compare to Heroku's standard dynos (which are shared hosting) you want the t3a family which is also shared, and much cheaper.

[layoric]

I must be confused, my understanding was m7a was 4th generation Epyc (Genoa, Bergamo and Siena) which I believe all have 2 threads per core no?