If you're looking for the simplicity of Heroku but want to run on raw AWS check out Convox. It's open source and free to try.

https://convox.com

Disclosure: I'm one of the cofounders

We've got some changes coming along these lines. Looks like we might also be able to use CloudFront for hostname routing.

This is a really great point. So far our strategy for this has been to build containers that mock various AWS services locally. This approach is still a bit experimental but please feel free to check out these repos:

https://github.com/convox/aws-dynamodb

https://github.com/convox/aws-s3

Indeed that's the way to go, I bet it will also increase enterprise adoption too as it reduces tie in with AWS.

An 'AWS-to-go' would be fantastic. I will always use AWS in production, but would be nice to have a lightweight dev equivalent. Especially now that I use Lambda a lot.

We picked Rack because we like the conceptual analogy. The naming conflict is unfortunate but there are a limited set of good words available. We hope that context will make the meaning clear.

Thank you for commenting :)

That's for the default of t2.small

ECS is incredibly powerful but definitely a lower-level primitive. We look at it sort of like a Kubernetes that we don't have to run for ourselves.

Scale has been great. We have customers running hundreds of containers on a single app without breaking a sweat.

I've noticed this as well. It seems like the docker.local hostname can sometimes take a long time to resolve. If I resolve that hostname and visit the IP directly it generally works great.

Definitely check out the beta forums as most of the issues I've found have already been reported with workarounds.

One of the founders of Convox here. Happy to answer any questions about Convox or deploying to AWS in general.

Absolutely! Our plan is to release support for the container registry as soon as it's generally available.