It's indistinguishable from a regular web hosting. You just upload script to some ftp and don't manage anything either. You just configure links to other servic

It's indistinguishable from a regular web hosting. You just upload script to some ftp and don't manage anything either. You just configure links to other services like DNS, or DB if that's needed. It's just now the same thing is done via some proprietary/custom cli tools and/or APIs not via a standard protocol and a trusty old clients that are already in your distro, and it's branded differently. APIs are good for some uses. That's usually lacking with hosting providers. Other than auto-scaling I can also easily bankrupt myself with if I make a mistake, I don't see much qualitative difference. Only in the details.