Same deployment simplicity. Your AWS account.
Convox replaces Heroku's git-push workflow with `convox deploy` — a single command that builds, pushes, and releases your app on infrastructure you own inside your own AWS account. No Heroku-flavored abstraction layer sitting between you and your cloud bill. You keep the PaaS experience and the infrastructure control.
Migrate from Heroku in a weekend, not a quarter.
A `convox.yml` file replaces your Heroku Procfile and add-on config, and it reads like plain English. If your app already runs in a Dockerfile — or you're willing to write one — Convox handles the rest: load balancers, SSL, environment variables, scaling, and scheduled tasks are all declared in one file. Most teams ship their first Convox deploy within a day.
BYOC means your data never leaves your account.
Unlike Render or Railway, Convox is Bring Your Own Cloud. Every resource — Kubernetes pods, RDS instances, S3 buckets, VPC — runs inside your own AWS account, under your own IAM policies. That matters for SOC 2, HIPAA, and any customer contract with a data residency clause. You get PaaS simplicity without giving a third party keys to your production environment.
Stop paying Heroku margins on AWS compute you could own.
Heroku's post-Salesforce pricing adds a significant markup on top of the AWS resources your app already runs on. Convox charges a flat platform fee — you pay AWS directly for compute, and the savings compound as you scale. Teams running 4–10 dynos routinely see 50–70% reductions in their total infrastructure spend after migrating to Convox.
No dedicated ops engineer required.
Convox was built for engineering teams with zero to one ops staff. A single `convox rack install` provisions a production-grade AWS environment — EKS cluster, ALB, RDS, networking — in under 30 minutes. After that, your developers deploy with the same command every time. No Terraform expertise, no Kubernetes YAML, no on-call rotation for infrastructure incidents Heroku used to absorb.
Not a Heroku clone. A better successor.
Render and Railway are great for teams who want someone else to own the infrastructure forever. Convox is for teams who've outgrown that tradeoff — who want the deployment simplicity of Heroku but the data ownership, compliance posture, and cost structure that only running in your own AWS account provides. Sub-1% monthly churn means teams that land on Convox tend to stay.
