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

One of the most popular alternatives to Google App Engine is Heroku. It's paid, but OpenStack is free. Other popular alternatives are OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. There's no shortage of Cloud Hosting Services like Google App Engine, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, self-hosting, Windows, Mac and iPad.
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...




Red Hat OpenShift is a trusted, comprehensive, and consistent platform to develop, modernize, and deploy applications at scale, including today’s AI-enabled apps. Deliver better experiences faster with a complete set of services for bringing apps to market on your choice of infrastructure.

The Azure cloud platform is more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life—to solve today’s challenges and create the future. Build, run, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-premises, and at the edge, with the tools and...



This service provides over 200 scalable cloud offerings including networking, computing, storage, and IoT, accessible via global server farms. It features a pay-as-you-go model with autoscaling, extensive global infrastructure, and robust security tools, suitable for enterprises.

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.
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.

AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you.




Koyeb is the serverless company delivering a next-generation platform to quickly deploy and run apps globally.

Qovery is the first Container as a Service (CaaS) platform that allows any developer to deploy an application in just a few seconds.
Effortlessly deploy and scale Laravel apps without server management. Enjoy built-in autoscaling, caching, and enterprise-grade security. Start quickly in under 60 seconds with zero configuration, access logs, metrics, and more. Manage multiple environments and team collaboration seamlessly.

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.