Ask HN: Heroku like platform built on top of Azure/AWS
I am wondering if is there a platform where we can quickly deploy an app with CI/CD and a database built-in where users use this Heroku-like interface but under the hood, it is just Azure or AWS and it takes care of all the complexities involved?
The reason I am asking this is this week I wanted to use Azure to deploy an app the same way I used Heroku and it was pretty complicated for very basic PoC apps. I was wondering if the is a tool or platform that abstracts things for common users.
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If you want to abstract all the multi-server setup and/or need something a bit more professional, I also work at a company called Porter (https://www.porter.run/), which handles the lifecycle of your app on top of the three major cloud providers. It provides a really nice experience on top of your own cloud, and abstracts the complexities of provisioning VPCs, networking, security, etc.