AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that allows developers to build, deploy, and scale applications without managing infrastructure. It's designed to streamline the development process, with support for a range of programming languages and frameworks.
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Convenience
2.2
Costs
1.8
Popularity
3.0
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Features
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) for deploying and managing web applications.
- Automatically handles deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, and auto-scaling to application health monitoring.
- Supports multiple programming languages and Docker-based environments.
- Easy to use without losing control over AWS resources.
- Integrated with AWS services for security, monitoring, and scalability.
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Categories
- Platform as a Service
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Data Centers Locations
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Compliant With
- GDPR SOC 2 HIPAA PCI DSS
Google App Engine
Google App Engine is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that allows developers to build, deploy, and scale applications without managing infrastructure. It's designed to streamline the development process, with support for a range of programming languages and frameworks.
Convenience
3.0
Costs
2.0
Popularity
2.0
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Features
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) for building, deploying, and scaling apps.
- Automatic scaling and load balancing.
- Supports multiple programming languages and frameworks.
- Integrated with Google Cloud services for security and monitoring.
- Flexible environment options for customizing application runtime.
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Free Tier
- 28 hours per day of F1 instances
- 9 hours per day of B1 instances
- 1 GB of outbound data transfer per day
- Does not apply to flexible environment
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Categories
- Platform as a Service
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Data Centers Locations
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Compliant With
- GDPR SOC 2 HIPAA PCI DSS
Render Services
Render is a cloud platform that offers hosting, scaling, and management for modern web applications. It's designed to simplify the process of deploying and managing applications, with support for a range of programming languages and integrations with other Render services.
Convenience
3.0
Costs
2.0
Popularity
2.0
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Features
- Platform for hosting and scaling modern web applications.
- Automatic scaling and zero-downtime deployments.
- Supports Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby, PHP, Elixir and Docker.
- Integrated with Render's managed databases and caching.
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Free Tier
- 750 hours of free instances with 0.1 CPU core and 512 MB of memory
- 500 pipeline minutes per month
- 100 GB of bandwidth per month
- 7 days of log retention
- No support for persistent disks
- Shutdown after 15 minutes without inbound traffic
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Categories
- Platform as a Service
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Data Centers Locations
- 🇺🇸 United States🇩🇪 Germany🇸🇬 Singapore
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Compliant With
- GDPR SOC 2
DigitalOcean App Platform
DigitalOcean App Platform is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that allows developers to build, deploy, and scale applications without managing infrastructure. It's designed to streamline the development process, with support for a range of programming languages and frameworks.
Convenience
2.1
Costs
2.0
Popularity
2.2
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Features
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) for building, deploying, and scaling apps.
- Supports automatic deployment from GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.
- Managed databases, caching, and job workers.
- Auto-scaling and zero-downtime deployments.
- Built-in HTTPS and global CDN.
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Free Tier
- 3 static sites
- Compute based on DigitalOcean Functions
- 1 GiB of outbound data transfer per month for every static site
- No long-lived containers
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Categories
- Platform as a Service
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Compliant With
- GDPR SOC 2 PCI DSS
Railway
Railway is a deployment platform designed to streamline the software development life-cycle, starting with instant deployments and effortless scale, extending to CI/CD integrations and built-in observability.
Convenience
3.0
Costs
2.0
Popularity
1.0
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Features
- Deploy directly from your Git repository.
- Native support for Docker images and Nixpacks.
- Private networking to establish inter-service communication.
- 400+ templates available to deploy common types of applications.
- Manage your deployments via a Web UI, the Railway CLI, or an API.
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Categories
- Platform as a Service
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Data Centers Locations
- 🇺🇸 United States🇳🇱 Netherlands🇸🇬 Singapore
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Compliant With
- GDPR
Porter
Porter manages infrastructure in your own AWS, GCP, or Azure account, and provides a platform for deploying and managing applications.
Convenience
3.0
Costs
2.0
Popularity
1.0
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Features
- Bring your own AWS, GCP, or Azure account.
- Automatic builds with Buildpacks and Dockerfiles.
- Provides automated CI/CD setup with GitHub Actions
- Preview environments for every pull request.
- Built-in monitoring and logging for up to 30 days.
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Categories
- Platform as a Service
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Data Centers Locations
- 🇺🇸 United States🇿🇦 South Africa🇨🇳 China🇮🇳 India🇮🇩 Indonesia🇯🇵 Japan🇸🇬 Singapore🇰🇷 South Korea🇦🇺 Australia🇨🇦 Canada🇩🇪 Germany🇮🇪 Ireland🇮🇹 Italy🇪🇸 Spain🇨🇭 Switzerland🇬🇧 United Kingdom🇫🇷 France🇸🇪 Sweden🇮🇱 Israel🇧🇭 Bahrain🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates🇧🇷 Brazil🇹🇼 Taiwan🇧🇪 Belgium🇫🇮 Finland🇵🇱 Poland🇶🇦 Qatar🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia🇨🇱 Chile🇳🇴 Norway🇳🇱 Netherlands
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Compliant With
- GDPR SOC 2