Google App Engine vs Pivotal Web Services (PWS) vs Red Hat OpenShift

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Google App Engine

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Pivotal Web Services (PWS)

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Red Hat OpenShift

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Pros of Google App Engine
Pros of Pivotal Web Services (PWS)
Pros of Red Hat OpenShift
  • 145
    Easy to deploy
  • 106
    Auto scaling
  • 80
    Good free plan
  • 62
    Easy management
  • 56
    Scalability
  • 35
    Low cost
  • 32
    Comprehensive set of features
  • 28
    All services in one place
  • 22
    Simple scaling
  • 19
    Quick and reliable cloud servers
  • 6
    Granular Billing
  • 5
    Easy to develop and unit test
  • 4
    Monitoring gives comprehensive set of key indicators
  • 3
    Really easy to quickly bring up a full stack
  • 3
    Create APIs quickly with cloud endpoints
  • 2
    Mostly up
  • 2
    No Ops
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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 Google App Engine
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    Cons of Red Hat OpenShift
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          Decisions are made for you, limiting your options
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          License cost
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          Behind, sometimes severely, the upstreams

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        What is 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.

        What is Pivotal Web Services (PWS)?

        Pivotal Web Services is a public cloud version of the widely supported Open Source Cloud Foundry PaaS. PWS makes is an ideal platform for the rapid deployment, easy scaling and binding of third party apps for Java, PHP, Ruby, GO and Python apps. Focus on apps not dev ops.

        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 Google App Engine, Pivotal Web Services (PWS), and Red Hat OpenShift?
        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.
        DigitalOcean
        We take the complexities out of cloud hosting by offering blazing fast, on-demand SSD cloud servers, straightforward pricing, a simple API, and an easy-to-use control panel.
        AWS Lambda
        AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. You can use AWS Lambda to extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own back-end services that operate at AWS scale, performance, and security.
        Kubernetes
        Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
        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.
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