Heroku Enterprise Is Done. Here's What That Actually Means.

Salesforce just quietly confirmed something the development community has suspected for years, they are turning away from the future. Heroku Enterprise is no longer available to new customers. Existing contracts will be honored, but no new ones. That's it. The platform that basically invented modern PaaS is now in maintenance mode.

This isn't a surprise. Salesforce has been steering toward AI and Salesforce-native tooling for a while now. Heroku just didn't fit the roadmap. So instead of killing it outright, they're letting it slowly fade. The lights are on, but nobody's home.

For teams running production workloads on Heroku Enterprise, this is the moment you've been putting off. You need a plan.

Why engineers are choosing Gigalixir

We're not trying to be Heroku 2.0. We're what Heroku should have become.

The migration is easier than you think. You keep your git push workflow, your Buildpacks, and most of your configuration. We're talking a new git remote and maybe an afternoon of testing. Not a rewrite.

The bigger wins come after you migrate.

Heroku's 24-hour dyno cycling has been killing stateful apps forever. Your in-memory caches, your GenServer state, your long-lived WebSocket connections were killed every day. On Gigalixir, your replicas stay up until you deploy new code. That's it. Problem solved.

You also get actual production debugging tools. SSH access, IEx console connections, Remote Observer. On Heroku you're guessing. On Gigalixir you're looking directly at what's happening in production.

And the pricing doesn't require an enterprise contract or a legal team to understand.

The bottom line

Heroku made an enormous contribution to how we deploy software. That's real. But Salesforce has moved on, and you probably should too.

If you're ready to migrate or just want to see what the difference actually looks like, sign up for a free account and push your first app. It takes about ten minutes tops.