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Care to share these alternatives ?

• scrollaway 10y ago
  Um, AWS? :) Within Google, either of the GCEs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/ https://cloud.google.com/compute/ https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/ https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/) depending on your architecture.
  • hehheh 10y ago
    Those aren't really alternatives to GAE IMO unless you would also say that a laptop is an alternative. A real GAE alternative would be a hosted solution that doesn't require you to install an OS or even know what OS it's using.
    • scrollaway 10y ago
      Such alternatives would have the same massive downsides as GAE (outdated software by design, lock-in by design). I'm not saying "Don't use GAE because it's expensive/google/whatever". I'm saying "Don't use GAE or anything like it".
    • NetStrikeForce 10y ago
      I think both AWS and Azure have pretty strong PaaS services where you just deploy your [nodejs|python|php] app. Heroku also comes to mind...
      • jacques_chester 10y ago
        AWS has Elastic Beanstalk. Azure is still finding their own PaaS pathway. Cloud Foundry gives you the "just push" experience for both of these (as well as vSphere, OpenStack, GCP and more to come). It's open source, with the IP owned by an independent foundation. Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we donate the majority of engineering on Cloud Foundry.
    • 010a 10y ago
      GKE/Kubernetes does fill that requirement; its not as simple as GAE, but its one step closer to bare metal.
  • boulos 10y ago
    As a nod to Kubernetes, we say GKE for Container Engine. Maybe we should add that acronym on that landing page...