&gt; The more I think about it, the better value Heroku appears to be.<p>Not really.<p>Netlify for $9&#x2F;mo to serve static content over Akamai&#x27;s network. API Gateway + Lambda + Dynamo for pennies per month when your traffic is low. If you get linked to by HN or some other source of massive traffic, you may pay ~$100 or so, but it will scale up (and back down) with no extra effort.<p>This setup is basically the same price as the $10&#x2F;mo Linode for most side projects and will outperform the $250&#x2F;mo Heroku setup.