17 Comparing Different Cloud Hosts
17 Comparing Different Cloud Hosts
This lesson will highlight the similarities and differences between AWS, GCP and Heroku.
So far, we’ve been familiarized with GCP and some of its feature. However,
there are several other popular cloud platforms as well, each with its own
flavor of functionality.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Heroku are giants in the field of cloud
hosting. In this lesson, we will compare GCP, AWS and Heroku to decide which
one is the best fit for us.
Does
Requires some Requires some
everything at
technical technical
the backend.
Deployment knowledge knowledge
We do not need
about server about server
to worry about
configuration. configuration.
maintenance.
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Offers the flexible as it There is a huge
Control widest range of handles growing library
features. everything for of dev tools.
us.
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Curve
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Fairly low. Pay
economical. A
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great free plan
need.
as well.
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speed, but this
Usually
is also a result
efficient, but Can slow down
Speed of GCP having
does slow down in high traffic.
less users than
in high traffic.
AWS and
Heroku.
That is all we need to know about safe and secure website deployment. We’ve
learned all the basic steps needed to run a persistent application. The next
section will explain how to maintain our website and server so that we don’t
face a degradation in services.