# Heroku (هيروكو)

> Heroku is available in Syria with limited functionality, as of 2026-08-10.

- Status: limited
- Outreach: Contacted
- Company: [Salesforce](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/salesforce.md)
- Categories: Cloud Hosting, CI/CD & DevOps, Databases, Web Hosting
- Official site: https://www.heroku.com
- Community votes: 7
- Last updated: 2026-08-10
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/heroku

## About

Cloud platform-as-a-service for building, deploying, and scaling web applications

## Activity summary

Partially blocked in Syria, verified in March 2026: the main site loads but account signup is blocked by a sanctions page, with the restriction confirmed to be IP-based. The team raised the matter with the parent company alongside its other products, and the company replied three times in February and March 2026 deferring to an enterprise-wide compliance review with no commitment to restore access.

## Official timeline

- 2026-03-31 — Follow-up Sent. Official outreach email sent from corporateaffairs@unblocksyria.com to feedback@slack.com. Heroku was explicitly named alongside Slack as a Salesforce product with Syria restrictions. The email argued for a single corporate-level compliance review across all three products.
- 2026-03-04 — Company Responded. Salesforce replied to the outreach regarding Heroku (responses on 17 February, 3 March, and 4 March 2026), deferring the matter to its enterprise-wide sanctions-compliance review rather than committing to any change for Syria access.

## Community reports

- 2026-03-15 — Investigated. Community testing from Syria over DSL confirmed that Heroku's main website (heroku.com) loads without issues, but account signup is blocked with an explicit sanctions compliance page. After selecting "Syrian Arab Republic" in the country dropdown during registration, the user is redirected to signup.heroku.com/blocked, which displays a Salesforce sanctions notice referencing US Treasury/OFAC restrictions. The submitter also tested changing the country to Jordan, but the block persisted, confirming the restriction is IP-based rather than tied to country selection alone. All service features requiring authentication are inaccessible. Status updated from unknown to limited. (evidence: https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/etg16ijrzwzz16vyx1alfm4n/vh4slmmgdqxs6dh1kkp8exmq-screenshot-2026-03-15-175056.png, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/ubzg74255xy4bzyhg7r1o39e/nm52ki6562ucw23p4u11l2sk-screenshot-2026-03-15-175223.png, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/ip13ulc7p3o4bx37a6p4c61q/v1tyq2v3kog45b9nlj0yoyln-screenshot-2026-03-15-180158.png)

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/heroku?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/heroku/timeline?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/heroku
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/heroku.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/heroku.md