Whether you are using Heroku’s database offerings in development or production, you’ll most likely need to push data and make changes to table schemas. I used these methods in the context of managing a database for a Django app, but they should work for apps built on other frameworks as well.

With the help of a few articles, I was able to use Amazon’s S3 service to host static files for a Django app hosted on Heroku. Below are the steps I followed to get this working.