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Heroku is Now Available to Purchase in AWS Marketplace

Today at AWS re:Invent , we’re excited to announce that Heroku is available for purchase in AWS Marketplace through the Private Offers program. Buying Heroku in AWS Marketplace gives you consolidated billing and seamless provisioning. There’s also more opportunity for Heroku and AWS to work with you to find the best mix of products for your apps and workloads.

If you’re a U.S. AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) customer, starting today, you can buy Dynos , Private Spaces , Heroku Postgres , Heroku Data for Redis® , Apache Kafka on Heroku , and Heroku Connect through AWS Marketplace Private Offers. Get…

Enhancing Heroku Postgres with pgvector: Generating AI Insights

We’re pleased to introduce the pgvector extension on Heroku Postgres . In an era where large language models (LLMs) and AI applications are paramount, pgvector provides the essential capability for performing high-dimensional vector similarity searches. This allows Heroku Postgres to quickly find similar data points in complex data, which is great for applications like recommendation systems and prompt engineering for LLMs. As of today, pgvector is fully compatible with all Production-tier databases running Postgres 15 at no additional charge and you can get started with a simple CREATE EXTENSION vector; command in your client session . In this post,…

Heroku User Research Program: A Catalyst for Collaboration and Growth

At Heroku, we’re on a mission to continuously improve our products and services to provide the best possible customer experience. Feedback is at the heart of our innovation, and we’re excited to highlight the Heroku User Research Program . Through this initiative, our customers provide feedback, test new features, and share their insights directly with our product teams.

Your Participation Matters

Since we introduced this program in April 2023 , we’ve made significant strides to enhance our product offerings and engage more effectively with you. Here’s a glimpse of the impact we’ve achieved together in…

Heroku Private Spaces Global Expansion: Canada, India, Singapore, and the UK

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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