Google PaaS has a leg up on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
October 15, 2014
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.
Amazon Web Services has a big lead over Google Cloud Platform in IaaS, but Google’s PaaS predates Amazon’s, and enterprises have taken notice. Google App Engine emerged in 2008, three years before Google would begin serious efforts on an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform, and three years before Amazon would launch its platform as a service (PaaS), Elastic Beanstalk.
Because of how infrastructure resources are abstracted in PaaS, services like Google App Engine tend to be "sticky" for early adopters — they stay on the platform once the PaaS becomes a core part of developing an app. Google PaaS, with its free quotas, has also been more affordable and easier to manage for some than Elastic Beanstalk…
App developers have stayed loyal to Google App Engine since its inception. "When they launched it was free to a quota," said Rafael Sanches, founder at Allthecooks LLC, developers of a Web application that functions as a social network for cooking enthusiasts. "We increased past the quota but the service was still cheaper [than Amazon] anyway." Others welcomed the abstraction of underlying infrastructure resources found with PaaS…
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