Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud.
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United States

Sites and apps similar to Engine Yard include Heroku. It's paid, but OpenStack and Radius are free. Other options are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Qovery, Google Compute Engine and 1984 Hosting. You can choose from more than 10 Cloud Hosting Services like Engine Yard for Windows, Linux, self-hosting, Mac and Android.
Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud.

OpenStack OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver solutions for all types of clouds by being simple to implement...




Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Radius is an open-source, cloud-native, application platform that enables developers and the operators that support them to define, deploy, and collaborate on cloud-native applications across public clouds and private infrastructure.


Qovery is the first Container as a Service (CaaS) platform that allows any developer to deploy an application in just a few seconds.
Google Compute Engine is the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) component elo of Google Cloud Platform which is built on the global infrastructure that runs Google's search engine, Gmail, YouTube and other services.
The 1984 Hosting Company was established in 2006 by a couple of Free Software and civil rights enthusiasts. We have since grown to become Iceland's biggest web hosting company by far. Our goal is to offer high quality web hosting and VPS services at a competitive price...
Porter is an alternative to Heroku that runs in your own cloud (AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, etc). Get started on Porter without the overhead of DevOps and fully customize your infra later when you need to.




AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) service from Amazon Web Services that allows users to create applications and push them to a definable set of AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 and elastic load balancers, plus several other AWS services.



We help developers deploy and run their apps with bulletproof infrastructure, automatic scaling, fair pricing and other awesome features. We aim to make an easy-to-use service, without any vendor lock-in and able to grow with your needs.


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