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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 cofounde…

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…

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 me…

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 cu…

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 work…

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

If you're using ECS to manage your clusters on AWS take a look at Convox. We're building an open source platform that makes building, versioning, and deploying code to AWS via ECS …

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

It may be possible but it would take a substantial amount of work and I wouldn't recommend it. Convox achieves much of its stability and scalability from relying on hosted a AWS se…

You could definitely do this. Create one master app and then have it connect back to ECS to spawn more apps.

Absolutely! We have a few people using Convox to run and scale workers without a web app.

Yes! We have formed a business behind convox and current have a small team working on it full time. We are very confident that it will hit 1.0. Thanks for your interest :)

Thanks for the interest :) We have been trying to figure out the best way to describe our platform and "private cloud" seems the closest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_comput…

Woops, I ninja-edited my comment above before I saw this. Yes you can do this, see the CLI command above.

This was recently added by a contributor! https://github.com/convox/cli/pull/48 You can update an existing cluster using something like `convox system scale --count 5 --type c4.xla…

Let us know if there's any way we can help. You can reach me at david@convox.com