AWS, DigitalOcean vs heroku, google app engine

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druuu picture druuu · Mar 13, 2014 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

The difference between the AWS, DigitalOean and heroku and google app engine?

AWS and DigitalOcean are web hosting site used to host simple dynamic sites where as the heroku and google app engine is used to deploy complex web applications?

AWS is Iaas and heroku is Paas, it would be great if you could give me a real time example.

This question shows inexperience , please do bare.

Answer

alkar picture alkar · Mar 13, 2014

tldr;

  • DigitalOcean is a "cloud" VPS provider. You get your usual VPS server from them.

  • AWS is a full blown cloud provider with services that allow you to actually build a complete datacentre (the options are mindblowing).

  • Heroku allows you to quickly publish web apps by pushing your code up to a git repository (they offer an abstraction layer). Trouble-free POC heaven!

  • Google App Engine is a service similar in a sense to Heroku (different features, however).

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