When Heroku ended its free tier many years ago, a wave of alternatives like Render, Vercel, Fly.io, and Railway sprouted up everywhere. Some have free tiers, but even with VC money, they all come with limitations. The golden free era is effectively over. 😭

Recently upgraded ufo to add support for ECS Fargate. As part of this, I had a chance to look at the pricing for Fargate. Found out that ECS Fargate’s pricing is competitive to Heroku’s offering. The pricing makes a lot of sense because they offer a similar value proposition. We do not have to manage the servers.