AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs dotCloud vs Red Hat OpenShift

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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dotCloud

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Red Hat OpenShift

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Pros of AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Pros of dotCloud
Pros of Red Hat OpenShift
  • 77
    Integrates with other aws services
  • 65
    Simple deployment
  • 44
    Fast
  • 28
    Painless
  • 16
    Free
  • 4
    Well-documented
  • 3
    Independend app container
  • 2
    Postgres hosting
  • 2
    Ability to be customized
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    • 99
      Good free plan
    • 63
      Open Source
    • 47
      Easy setup
    • 43
      Nodejs support
    • 42
      Well documented
    • 32
      Custom domains
    • 28
      Mongodb support
    • 27
      Clean and simple architecture
    • 25
      PHP support
    • 21
      Customizable environments
    • 11
      Ability to run CRON jobs
    • 9
      Easier than Heroku for a WordPress blog
    • 8
      Easy deployment
    • 7
      PostgreSQL support
    • 7
      Autoscaling
    • 7
      Good balance between Heroku and AWS for flexibility
    • 5
      Free, Easy Setup, Lot of Gear or D.I.Y Gear
    • 4
      Shell access to gears
    • 3
      Great Support
    • 3
      High Security
    • 3
      Logging & Metrics
    • 2
      Cloud Agnostic
    • 2
      Runs Anywhere - AWS, GCP, Azure
    • 2
      No credit card needed
    • 2
      Because it is easy to manage
    • 2
      Secure
    • 2
      Meteor support
    • 2
      Overly complicated and over engineered in majority of e
    • 2
      Golang support
    • 2
      Its free and offer custom domain usage
    • 1
      Autoscaling at a good price point
    • 1
      Easy setup and great customer support
    • 1
      MultiCloud
    • 1
      Great free plan with excellent support
    • 1
      This is the only free one among the three as of today

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    Cons of AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Cons of dotCloud
    Cons of Red Hat OpenShift
    • 2
      Charges appear automatically after exceeding free quota
    • 1
      Lots of moving parts and config
    • 0
      Slow deployments
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      • 2
        Decisions are made for you, limiting your options
      • 2
        License cost
      • 1
        Behind, sometimes severely, the upstreams

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      What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

      Once you upload your application, Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.

      What is dotCloud?

      Build your ideal application stack by combining powerful cloud services. Experiment for free, then go live and only pay for what you need. dotCloud enables developers and IT organizations to deploy, manage and scale their applications with unprecedented ease and flexibility by assembling and customizing powerful pre-configured stacks and services.

      What is Red Hat OpenShift?

      OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

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      What are some alternatives to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, dotCloud, and Red Hat OpenShift?
      Google App Engine
      Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.
      AWS CodeDeploy
      AWS CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to Amazon EC2 instances. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your applications.
      Docker
      The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
      AWS CloudFormation
      You can use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create your own templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run your application. You don’t need to figure out the order in which AWS services need to be provisioned or the subtleties of how to make those dependencies work.
      Azure App Service
      Quickly build, deploy, and scale web apps created with popular frameworks .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, PHP, Ruby, or Python, in containers or running on any operating system. Meet rigorous, enterprise-grade performance, security, and compliance requirements by using the fully managed platform for your operational and monitoring tasks.
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