Azure Websites vs Engine Yard Cloud

Overview

Engine Yard Cloud

Stacks25

Followers36

Votes7

Azure Websites

Stacks404

Followers404

Votes23

Azure Websites vs Engine Yard Cloud: What are the differences?

Azure Websites: Deploy and scale modern websites and web apps in seconds. Azure Websites is a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables you to build, deploy and scale enterprise-grade web Apps in seconds. Focus on your application code, and let Azure take care of the infrastructure to scale and securely run it for you; Engine Yard Cloud: 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.

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

Some of the features offered by Azure Websites are:

.NET, Java, PHP, Node.js, Python
Built-in AutoScale and Load Balancing
High Availability with Auto-Patching

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

"Ease of deployment" is the top reason why over 14 developers like Azure Websites, while over 5 developers mention "Great customer support" as the leading cause for choosing Engine Yard Cloud.

Microsoft, Jet.com, and Crowdkeep are some of the popular companies that use Azure Websites, whereas Engine Yard Cloud is used by ChallengePost, Firecracker, and CoolWorks. Azure Websites has a broader approval, being mentioned in 73 company stacks & 36 developers stacks; compared to Engine Yard Cloud, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Engine Yard Cloud	Azure Websites
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.	Azure Websites is a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables you to build, deploy and scale enterprise-grade web Apps in seconds. Focus on your application code, and let Azure take care of the infrastructure to scale and securely run it for you.
Dedicated, secure, commercial-grade platform that increases agility;Focus on your code - not on operations or platform maintenance;Scale cloud applications and infrastructure rapidly;Control over your environment's configuration;Improved uptime and data reliability;Built-in monitoring and alerts to improve performance	.NET, Java, PHP, Node.js, Python;Built-in AutoScale and Load Balancing;High Availability with Auto-Patching;Continuous Deployment with Git, TFS, GitHub;SQL Databases, MySQL, DocumentDB, Search, MongoDB;WordPress, Umbraco, Joomla, Drupal
Statistics
Stacks 25	Stacks 404
Followers 36	Followers 404
Votes 7	Votes 23
Pros & Cons
Pros 6 Great customer support 1 Simple deployment	Pros 17 Ease of deployment 6 Free plans for students
Integrations
Twilio SendGrid Redis To Go MongoLab Cloudability Loggly IronMQ Treasure Data New Relic Logentries Codeship	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Engine Yard Cloud, Azure Websites?

Heroku

Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

Clever Cloud

Clever Cloud is a polyglot cloud application platform. The service helps developers to build applications with many languages and services, with auto-scaling features and a true pay-as-you-go pricing model.

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.

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.

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.

Render

Render is a unified platform to build and run all your apps and websites with free SSL, a global CDN, private networks and auto deploys from Git.

Hasura

An open source GraphQL engine that deploys instant, realtime GraphQL APIs on any Postgres database.

Cloud 66

Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with "server stuff". Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Jamstack, Laravel, GoLang, and more.

Jelastic

Jelastic is a Multi-Cloud DevOps PaaS for ISVs, telcos, service providers and enterprises needing to speed up development, reduce cost of IT infrastructure, improve uptime and security.

Dokku

It is an extensible, open source Platform as a Service that runs on a single server of your choice. It helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications from building to scaling.