Aerobatic vs Engine Yard Cloud: What are the differences?

Developers describe Aerobatic as "Smart Hosting for Single Page Apps". In a nutshell, it's a platform as a service (PaaS) for HTML5 web apps. You could think of it as Heroku for the front-end. It provides a streamlined developer workflow and a suite of cloud-based smart hosting modules that are highly complementary to your custom app code running in the browser. On the other hand, Engine Yard Cloud is detailed as "Deploy and scale Rails applications in the cloud". The Engine Yard Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a product family that leverages open source technologies to orchestrate and automate the configuration, deployment and management of applications on multiple infrastructures.

Aerobatic and Engine Yard Cloud belong to "Platform as a Service" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Aerobatic are:

• Build feature-rich HTML 5 single page apps in the cloud
• Enhanced integration, performance, and security over static apps
• Built-in asset delivery optimization

On the other hand, Engine Yard Cloud provides the following key features:

• Dedicated, secure, commercial-grade platform that increases agility
• Focus on your code - not on operations or platform maintenance
• Scale cloud applications and infrastructure rapidly