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.
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Last updated: 04/08/2024
Google App Engine
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
- 🇺🇸 United States🇿🇦 South Africa🇨🇳 China🇮🇳 India🇮🇩 Indonesia🇹🇼 Taiwan🇯🇵 Japan🇸🇬 Singapore🇰🇷 South Korea🇦🇺 Australia🇨🇦 Canada🇩🇪 Germany🇮🇪 Ireland🇮🇹 Italy🇪🇸 Spain🇨🇭 Switzerland🇬🇧 United Kingdom🇧🇪 Belgium🇫🇮 Finland🇵🇱 Poland🇫🇷 France🇶🇦 Qatar🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia🇮🇱 Israel🇧🇷 Brazil🇨🇱 Chile
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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
2.1
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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
Koyeb
Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform designed to let businesses easily deploy reliable and scalable applications globally. It allows you to deploy all kind of services including full web applications, APIs, and background workers.
Convenience
3.0
Costs
2.2
Popularity
1.2
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Features
- Automatic builds with Buildpacks and Dockerfiles.
- Git-driven deployments for code hosted on GitHub.
- Manage your deployments via a Web UI, the Koyeb CLI, or an API.
- Native support for HTTP/2, HTTP/3, WebSocket, and gRPC.
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Free Tier
- 1 web service in Frankfurt or Washington DC
- 0.1 vCPU and 512 MB of memory and 2 GB of SSD storage
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Categories
- Platform as a Service
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Data Centers Locations
- 🇩🇪 Germany🇺🇸 United States🇸🇬 Singapore🇯🇵 Japan🇫🇷 France
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Compliant With
- GDPR SOC 2
Flightcontrol
Flightcontrol provides a PaaS that is built on top of AWS services. It offers an abstraction to simplify the deployment and management of applications on AWS.
Convenience
2.0
Costs
2.0
Popularity
2.0
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Features
- Bring your own AWS account
- Deploy directly from your GitHub repository
- Build via Dockerfile or Nixpacks
- Static sites, Databases, Web Services, and more
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Free Tier
- Commercial Use
- No credit card required
- Limited to one user
- You still pay for the AWS resources
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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
Python Anywhere
Python Anywhere is a cloud service designed specifically for Python developers. It allows users to write, run, and host Python applications and websites directly from a browser without having to worry about server management or configuration. It's user-friendly for beginners and offers a range of plans, including a free tier.
Convenience
2.1
Costs
2.0
Popularity
1.1
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Features
- Host, run, and code Python in the cloud.
- Web-based development and hosting environment.
- Integrated Python console and Bash command-line interface.
- Free and paid plans with varying levels of resource allocation.
- Built-in web hosting capabilities with easy web app deployment.
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Free Tier
- 1 web app
- 100 seconds CPU allowance per day
- low network bandwidth
- 512 MB file storage
- 1 daily scheduled task
- Up to 2 Python, Bash, MySQL consoles
- No custom domain support
- External access is limited
- Credit card required
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Categories
- Platform as a Service
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Data Centers Locations
- 🌍 Europe🌎 North America
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Compliant With
- GDPR