Beard Industries: Heroku Out, Amplify In

Beard Industries didn’t need a full Rails stack just to serve a marketing page, and paying Heroku to babysit a static site felt dumb. I stripped it down to plain HTML/CSS, fixed the broken contact links, and shipped it on AWS Amplify so it’s fast, cheap, and boring in the best way. No build pipeline, no dynos, just a clean static deploy. The DNS cutover is done and the site is now served through CloudFront. That means fewer moving parts, less maintenance, and one less monthly bill for a site that doesn’t need a backend. This was one of those changes that isn’t flashy, but it makes the stack more honest.