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Still wondering why AWS does not provide a solid PaaS solution like Heroku does (they are on AWS, though) - or am I just overlooking it? I would like to host a
by cygned 10y ago
Still wondering why AWS does not provide a solid PaaS solution like Heroku does (they are on AWS, though) - or am I just overlooking it? I would like to host a few node.js/Clojure apps but I don't want to have the hassle with virtual machines/IaaS.
- ralusek 10y agoElastic Beanstalk and now Lightsail.
- unmole 10y agoLightsail isn't really a PaaS, it's a 'simplified' rebranding of EC2.
- michaelbuckbee 10y agoElasticBeanstalk is their PAAS-like solution. I still tend to build out things with Heroku as the central point and slot in AWS services as they make sense.
- cygned 10y agoI looked at ElasticBeanstalk back then, and - frankly - to me it sounds like an overcomplicated PaaS product. If I understood it correctly, they basically "just" tie together a bunch of services for you. I was expecting something as simple as Heroku, actually.
- cyberferret 10y agoI would encourage you to take another look at it. You are right in that it basically ties services together (mainly EC2 and RDS), but it does give you an option of starting and deploying a Ruby or Node.js project from the command line and taking care of all the details for you. (In fact, you don't HAVE to tie services together that you don't need. If you have a separate RDS instance already that you want to use, you can tell your Elastic Beanstalk project to use that instead of creating a new one). I use Elastic Beanstalk for all my projects now, and like how I can deploy from Git repositories so easily with a single command. Granted the interface isn't as easy as Heroku, but you have the bonus of added configurability in your apps.
- cygned 10y agoThat sounds indeed better than I thought. I will definitely give it try.