That's true. I wanted to maintain good continuous delivery practices while minimizing the need to worry about individual resources (e.g. web server, database server, DNS), which is why I opted for Elastic Beanstalk. Then I fell down the Terraform rabbit hole.

Docker definitely gets the job done, but I would still have to worry about dealing with data backups, DNS, and deploying to the server. Heroku worries about all of that for me now.