Engine Yard Cloud vs octohost: What are the differences?

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; octohost: Simple web focused Dockerfile based PaaS server. octohost helps you host any web site by adding a Dockerfile to your app's source repository.

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

Some of the features offered by Engine Yard Cloud are:

• Dedicated, secure, commercial-grade platform that increases agility
• Focus on your code - not on operations or platform maintenance
• Scale cloud applications and infrastructure rapidly

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

• Uses Dockerfiles rather than Procfiles
• More than 10 languages supported already, and many frameworks
• Support for Amazon, Digital Ocean, Rackspace

octohost is an open source tool with 444 GitHub stars and 32 GitHub forks. Here's a link to octohost's open source repository on GitHub.