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Clever Cloud vs Google App Engine: What are the differences?
What is Clever Cloud? Deploy and run apps with bulletproof infrastructure, automatic scaling, and fair pricing. 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.
What is Google App Engine? Build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications. 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.
Clever Cloud and Google App Engine belong to "Platform as a Service" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Clever Cloud are:
- Auto-scalability
- Multi-language
- SQL and NoSQL
On the other hand, Google App Engine provides the following key features:
- Zero to sixty: Scale your app automatically without worrying about managing machines.
- Supercharged APIs: Supercharge your app with services such as Task Queue, XMPP, and Cloud SQL, all powered by the same infrastructure that powers the Google services you use every day.
- You're in control: Manage your application with a simple, web-based dashboard allowing you to customize your app's performance.
"Quick & easy setup", "Amazing support" and "Ultra fast answer to any question" are the key factors why developers consider Clever Cloud; whereas "Easy to deploy", "Auto scaling" and "Good free plan" are the primary reasons why Google App Engine is favored.
Snapchat, Accenture, and Movielala are some of the popular companies that use Google App Engine, whereas Clever Cloud is used by Accenture, Uplust, and Rude Baguette. Google App Engine has a broader approval, being mentioned in 481 company stacks & 343 developers stacks; compared to Clever Cloud, which is listed in 21 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Clever Cloud
- Quick & easy setup147
- Amazing support104
- Ultra fast answer to any question87
- Github integration82
- Time saver74
- Fast apps66
- Cool admin interface62
- Postgresql as a service51
- Receive email from the ceo when one of my process crash43
- Easy deployment of playframework33
- Autoscale nodejs processes20
- Easy nodejs deployment19
- Don't need devops in our team16
- Great service15
- Elegant and convenient paas and great support12
- Easy mongodb backup11
- Great customer support11
- Easiest scala / playframework setup i have seen10
- Really great and usefull product with an amazing team9
- Awesome docker support8
- Quick & easy to start to use8
- Git push and it's prodded7
- Up & running with Node in minutes7
- Deploy with docker6
- Easy setup with great customer support6
- Superficial support team5
- Amazing experience - after using heroku, nodejitsu, etc5
- Really safe,quick and responsive! probably best one4
- Customer support is awesome4
- More than efficient scaler3
- Clean interface3
- My devs like it which means I like it! Great support3
- KISS principle3
- Easy setup, CTO and team influencers2
- Easy setup and deploy for play framework and scala2
- Amazing Gif Generator2
- No-brainer, efficient, never gets in the way2
- Great docker support, just via web + git2
- They are a pleasure to work with2
- Awesome support and easy to use..! using laravel (php)2
- Haskell support without worries2
- Easy deployment2
- Top notch support by developer peers2
- No code integration needed2
- Auto redeploy after git push2
- Manage ops parts for me1
- They accept bitcoin1
- Ffmpeg available for nodejs servers1
- Simple to use, brilliant team, super reliable1
- Reported bugs are fixed during the following hour1
- Online postgresql admin gui1
- Too much powered servers and add-ons1
- Fast deployment time1
Pros of Google App Engine
- Easy to deploy144
- Auto scaling106
- Good free plan80
- Easy management62
- Scalability56
- Low cost35
- Comprehensive set of features32
- All services in one place28
- Simple scaling22
- Quick and reliable cloud servers19
- Granular Billing6
- Easy to develop and unit test5
- Monitoring gives comprehensive set of key indicators4
- Create APIs quickly with cloud endpoints3
- Really easy to quickly bring up a full stack3
- No Ops2
- Mostly up2
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Cons of Clever Cloud
- Super expensive2
- Not a whole lot of flexibility1