PaaS Migration Guides

SaaS payment handlers must meet 51 new mandatory PCI DSS v4.0 requirements by March 2025.

Three platforms offer different tradeoffs in simplicity, reach, reliability, and cost.

Teams leaving Heroku must choose between vendor lock-in and operational overhead.

Deploy production apps in your own cloud account without vendor lock-in.

Terraform patterns that prevent infrastructure drift before it becomes an expensive problem.

Know which HIPAA rules apply to your software before you write the first line of code.

SOC 2 compliance lives in engineering's workflow, not the security team's filing cabinet.

SOC 2 Type II has become table stakes for enterprise deals, and timing matters more than you think.

Per-unit pricing steps costs up in jumps rather than slopes, hiding the true expense of growth.

A step-by-step guide to migrating Postgres off Heroku without extended downtime or data loss.

Your PaaS vendor's SOC 2 only covers their infrastructure, not what you built on it.

Before you migrate from Render to AWS, document your entire infrastructure in writing.

Vercel's serverless architecture hits hard limits with production workloads beyond simple APIs.

Heroku's pricing and technical constraints make Render the better choice for scaling startups.

Heroku abstracts away infrastructure; AWS makes you own it all at once.

Match your platform choice to your team's operational capacity, not just price or features.