Empire
A Heroku-like Platform as a Service (PaaS) built on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) for deploying and managing containerized microservices.
What is Empire?
Empire is a control layer on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) that provides a Heroku-like workflow for deploying and managing containerized applications. It enables teams to run microservices with the flexibility of AWS infrastructure while using familiar Heroku-compatible tooling.
Small to medium-sized startups running a large number of microservices who need more flexibility than Heroku provides but want to avoid the complexities of managing systems like Mesos or Kubernetes.
Developers choose Empire because it offers Heroku API compatibility, allowing use of existing Heroku tools and CLIs, while leveraging AWS ECS for container orchestration without the operational overhead of more complex systems.
Overview
A PaaS built on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS)
Use Cases
Best For
- Teams migrating from Heroku to AWS who want to maintain their existing deployment workflows and tooling.
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