As Ops guy, all infrastructure declared in application code eventually leads to crying if you get big enough.
That being said, I know we are expensive and "don't add to bottom line" so this looks like good enough hacky kludge as anything else.
Haha. We're not trying to replace Ops, just prevent teams from needing to build internal platforms before they can ship product. You can still modify all the provisioned infra directly in AWS/GCP console, or layer Terraform on top. We work alongside you, not against you.
We've had a bunch of people migrate over from Heroku in the last couple years, especially after they killed the free tier.
The main difference from other alternatives is that you don't write any infrastructure config - you just declare what you need in your code (databases, cron jobs, pubsub, etc) and Encore handles provisioning it in your AWS/GCP account (works locally as well where local is 1:1 to your prod env). So there's no Terraform to maintain or Docker setup to mess with.
If you're looking to move off Heroku it's pretty straightforward, most folks get their app running in an afternoon. Happy to help if you run into anything: https://encore.cloud