AWS CodeStar vs Deis: What are the differences?

What is AWS CodeStar? Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS. Start new software projects on AWS in minutes using templates for web applications, web services and more.

What is Deis? Open Source PaaS that builds upon Docker and CoreOS to provide a lightweight PaaS with a Heroku-inspired workflow. Deis can deploy any application or service that can run inside a Docker container. In order to be scaled horizontally, applications must follow Heroku's 12-factor methodology and store state in external backing services.

AWS CodeStar and Deis can be primarily classified as "Platform as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by AWS CodeStar are:

• Start developing on AWS in minutes
• Manage software delivery in one place
• Work across your team securely

On the other hand, Deis provides the following key features:

• Deis can deploy any language or framework using a Dockerfile
• If you don't have a Dockerfile, Deis includes Heroku buildpacks for Ruby, Python, Node.js, Java, Clojure, Scala, Play, PHP, Perl, Dart and Go.
• Deis can be deployed on any system that supports CoreOS including your workstation, as well as most public clouds, private clouds and bare metal.

Deis is an open source tool with 6.12K GitHub stars and 863 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Deis's open source repository on GitHub.