Today we are happy to announce Heroku Shield, a new addition to our Heroku Enterprise line of products. Heroku Shield introduces new capabilities to Dynos, Postgres databases and Private Spaces that make Heroku suitable for high compliance environments such as healthcare apps regulated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). With Heroku Shield, the power and productivity of Heroku is now easily available to a whole new class of strictly regulated apps.

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The new add-ons canary service will attempt to provision and deprovision your add-on service on an app named 'addons-canary'. These daily tests will help us proactively detect any failed provisioning attempts and ensure customers can provision all add-on services. This effort will also help us identify issues earlier and notify you of provisioning issues.

Heroku Shield, a set of services included in Heroku Enterprise, is generally available and offers customers additional compliance features needed for building high-compliance applications. Heroku Shield includes Shield...