"Heroku, the PaaS platform that allows developers to build apps in the cloud, is going into maintenance mode. Owner Salesforce is not pulling the plug on the solution itself, but will no longer be selling new Enterprise contracts. Existing customers can still renew their subscriptions, but Salesforce wants to focus its attention primarily on enterprise-grade AI. Nitin Bhat, SVP & GM at Salesforce and head of the Heroku Business Unit, announced on Friday that the platform will transition to a 'sustaining engineering model'."
"Heroku runs workloads in Linux containers, called "dynos," which automatically restart in case of problems. But the market has changed dramatically, perhaps in an almost unrecognizable way. When Salesforce acquired Heroku, the major public clouds were only a few years old and their PaaS offerings were limited. Today, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud offer comparable alternatives for virtually all Heroku components. That competition likely played a role in the decision."
Heroku will move to a sustaining engineering model with no new feature development while continuing updates for stability, security, and support. Salesforce will stop selling new Enterprise contracts but will allow existing customers to renew subscriptions. The managed PostgreSQL service renewal will proceed and serve as the final development milestone. Less than a year earlier, Heroku introduced an AI platform and new tools, yet Salesforce is now reallocating focus to enterprise AI initiatives. Heroku processes 65 billion requests across 65 million apps per day. Market competition from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud influenced the strategic shift.
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