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Global Expansion for Heroku Private Spaces: Canada, India, Singapore, and the United Kingdom

In May 2023, we announced our limited release of two new Heroku Private Spaces regions: India (Mumbai) and Canada (Montreal). This month, we’re announcing the full general availability of those two regions, along with new Heroku Private Spaces regions for the United Kingdom (London) and Singapore. This expansion enables customers to maintain greater control over where their data is stored and processed. These four new regions fully support Heroku Private Spaces, Heroku Shield Private Spaces, Heroku Postgres, Apache Kafka on Heroku, Heroku Data for Redis, Heroku Connect, and most Heroku Add-ons. Private Spaces provide a dedicated virtual network environment for…

Join us for a New Chapter of Growth and Innovation

While it's not our usual approach to announce hiring updates on our product blog, we're pleased to share our ongoing dedication to improving the Heroku experience. Focused Growth and Progress Heroku is entering a new phase of investment, and as a part of this initiative, we are opening up new positions for individuals who would like to join us in driving this effort. Our goal is to expand our offerings across the platform, catering to both our customers and ecosystem partners. Our mission remains clear: we aim to assist developers in creating their best code yet, enabling them to build…

Heroku CI and Heroku Teams Now Free for Card Paying Customers

We’ve just introduced three new changes to our pricing at Heroku, all designed to provide extra value to our customers and make cost estimation easier. These changes will kick in from September 1, 2023 onward: Your account will no longer be charged the $10 monthly fee for Heroku CI. Your account will no longer be charged the $10 monthly fee for Heroku Teams with over five members. We’ve improved our pricing page to include hourly expenses alongside the maximum monthly costs. Why is the Heroku pricing page changing? The Heroku team is simplifying pricing for clarity and a better customer…

Heroku Card Payments Are Back in India

We re-enabled payments to Heroku in India! At the start of August, we resumed accepting credit and debit cards issued by Indian financial institutions. From the engagement on our public roadmap, we know that there are many developers in India eager to get back on the platform. We want to address the work done to re-enable this functionality, and why Heroku stopped accepting payments from India in the first place. We started by enabling 3D Secure (3DS) on our platform. 3D Secure is a protocol that prompts a user to use a dynamic authentication methods such as biometrics or token-based…

Security Improvement: Subdomain Reuse Mitigation

Summary Subdomain reuse, also known as subdomain takeover, is a security vulnerability that occurs when an attacker claims and takes control of a target domain. Typically, this happens when an application is deprecated and an attacker directs residual traffic to a host that they control. As of 14 June 2023, we changed the format of the built-in herokuapp.com domain for Heroku apps. This change improves the security of the platform by preventing subdomain reuse. The new format is <app-name>-<random-identifier>.herokuapp.com. Previously, the format was <app-name>.herokuapp.com. The new format for built-in herokuapp.com domains is on by default for all users. Why It's…

Improving the Heroku Postgres Extension Experience

PostgreSQL extensions are powerful tools that allow developers to extend the functionality of PostgreSQL beyond its basic types and functions. These extensions can connect your database to an external PostgreSQL instance (postgres_fdw), add native GIS functionality (postgis), standardize address information (address_standardizer), and more. Extensions are arguably one of PostgreSQL’s greatest features and are partially responsible for the massive adoption PostgreSQL has received over the years. We’re pleased to announce a change to the Heroku Postgres extension experience. You can once again install Heroku Postgres extensions in the public schema or any other! Previously, in response to incident 2450, we required…

Introducing New Heroku Postgres Plans

Sometimes your data grows and requires a bigger disk without a need for more compute or memory. Previously, our offerings were a bit too inflexible. We also didn’t want to limit our largest database at 4TB. We released new Heroku Postgres plans that give you more flexibility when scaling up your database storage needs on Heroku. We heard from our customers that they want to be able to upgrade disk space without adding other resources like vCPU or memory. In response, we created new L and XL plans with increased disk limits for premium , private , and shield tiers…

Heroku Adds Third Availability Zone for Private Spaces

Heroku is excited to announce the addition of a third availability zone (AZ) for our Private Spaces product offering. Three availability zones make Private Space apps more resilient to outages. We’ve prioritized this improvement as part of our focus on mission-critical features to make the Heroku Platform even more reliable. The changeover to three availability zones is fully managed by Heroku. Heroku handles all maintenance, upgrades, and management of Private Spaces, so our customers can focus on delivering value to their users without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. What are availability zones and how does Heroku use them? All AWS…

Heroku Private Spaces Expand to Mumbai and Montreal

This month, we’re expanding the Heroku platform with a limited release of our Private Spaces product in two new regions, India (Mumbai) and Canada (Montreal), enabling customers to maintain even greater control over where data is stored and processed. These two new regions will fully support Heroku Private Spaces, Heroku Shield Private Spaces, Heroku Postgres, Apache Kafka on Heroku, Heroku Data for Redis, Heroku Connect, and most Heroku Add-ons. Private Spaces provide a dedicated and virtual network environment for running Heroku applications. They are now supported in the following regions, with new regions highlighted in bold below: name location dublin…

Announcing PostgreSQL 15 on Heroku

We are excited to announce that Postgres version 15 is now generally available! The developers of Postgres release a new version around October every year, and we aim to release it on Heroku Postgres each Q1. Additionally, we track Postgres end-of-life dates to ensure that our service and our customers are always on the latest supported releases. If you are new to Heroku, great! Your new database defaults to Postgres 15. If you already have a Heroku Postgres database on an older version, we make the upgrade process simple. And if you are still on one of the deprecated versions,…

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