The Basics
Heroku
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Microsoft Azure
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|---|---|---|
| Website | heroku.com | azure.microsoft.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2007 | 2008 |
| Data Center Locations | 10 | 66 |
| Example Customers | Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify | General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA |
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Heroku
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | heroku.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Data Center Locations | 10 |
| Example Customers | Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify |
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Microsoft Azure
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|
|---|---|
| Website | azure.microsoft.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Data Center Locations | 66 |
| Example Customers | General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA |
Cost Comparison
How do Heroku's prices compare against Microsoft Azure?
| Example configuration |
Heroku
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Microsoft Azure
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|---|---|---|
| VM Small | $50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X) | $7.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B1s) |
| VM Medium | $250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M) | $137.52 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (A4v2) |
| VM Large | $500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L) | $288.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (A8v2) |
| Block Storage | -- | $9.60 / mo 128 GiB |
| Object Storage | -- | $21.50 / mo 1 TB |
| Load Balancer | Included in plan | $23.25 / mo Standard |
| Managed PostgreSQL | $50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage | $131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5) |
| Managed Redis®* | $200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM | $39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1) |
| Serverless 25M Executions | -- | $29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration |
| Free egress allowance | 2 TB / mo per app | 100 GB / mo |
| 1 TB of egress beyond allowance | Not publicly listed | $78.30 |
Note: These pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.
Which services do they offer?
Here are some of the managed services that Heroku and Microsoft Azure offer:
| Service |
Heroku
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Microsoft Azure
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|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | -- | |
| Content Delivery Network (CDN) | -- | |
| Container Registry | -- | |
| GPU-powered Servers | -- | |
| Load Balancer | -- | |
| Managed Containers | ||
| Managed Kubernetes | -- | |
| Managed MySQL | -- | |
| Managed PostgreSQL | ||
| Managed Redis®* | ||
| Object Storage | -- | |
| Serverless Cron Jobs | -- | |
| Serverless Functions | -- | |
| Static Sites | -- | |
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) | -- |
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Our data for Heroku was last updated on March 28, 2024, and for Microsoft Azure on Feb. 10, 2024.