Convox vs Engine Yard Cloud

Overview

Engine Yard Cloud

Stacks25

Followers36

Votes7

Convox

Stacks42

Followers55

Votes37

Convox vs Engine Yard Cloud: What are the differences?

Convox: Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes. The simplicity of Heroku. The power of AWS. Convox is an open source Platform as a Service that runs in your own Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. Instead of signing up for a multi-tenant PaaS like Heroku, you can have your own. This gives you privacy and control over your platform and avoids the substantial markup on AWS prices that other platforms charge; 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.

Convox and Engine Yard Cloud can be categorized as "Platform as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by Convox are:

Instant Deploys
Runs in your AWS account
Open Source

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

"Your own scalable Heroku in 5 minutes" is the top reason why over 5 developers like Convox, while over 5 developers mention "Great customer support" as the leading cause for choosing Engine Yard Cloud.

Bit Zesty, Placeavote, and Truebill are some of the popular companies that use Convox, whereas Engine Yard Cloud is used by ChallengePost, Concordia Technology Solutions, and CoolWorks. Convox has a broader approval, being mentioned in 9 company stacks & 5 developers stacks; compared to Engine Yard Cloud, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Engine Yard Cloud	Convox
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.	Convox is an open source Platform as a Service that runs in your own Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. Instead of signing up for a multi-tenant PaaS like Heroku, you can have your own. This gives you privacy and control over your platform and avoids the substantial markup on AWS prices that other platforms charge.
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	Instant Deploys;Runs in your AWS account;Open Source;Container Management; Kubernetes
Statistics
Stacks 25	Stacks 42
Followers 36	Followers 55
Votes 7	Votes 37
Pros & Cons
Pros 6 Great customer support 1 Simple deployment	Pros 7 Your own scalable Heroku in 5 minutes 7 It makes deployment management to AWS dependable. 6 Free, you only pay for AWS resources 5 Convox deploy - deploys your app in one command 5 Built on Docker
Integrations
Twilio SendGrid Redis To Go MongoLab Cloudability Loggly IronMQ Treasure Data New Relic Logentries Codeship	GitLab Slack Kubernetes CircleCI Travis CI GitHub Docker Amazon EKS Amazon VPC Datadog

What are some alternatives to Engine Yard Cloud, Convox?

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.