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Understand how Defang compares to other deployment options for AWS.

Defang EC2

Defang vs Docker Compose on EC2

You can SSH into an EC2 instance and run docker compose up. But six months later, you're maintaining an ad-hoc PaaS.

Defang Heroku

Defang vs Heroku for Docker Compose Users

You have a multi-service Docker Compose app. Heroku forces you to abandon it. Defang takes your compose.yaml as-is.

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