Engine Yard is a NoOps PaaS solution for deploying and managing applications on AWS. Engine Yard reduces your operational burden and enables you to deploy and manage applications without requiring an internal DevOps team. Focus on building great applications and leave the management to Engine Yard.
Each PaaS solution provider has their own unique strengths. What you choose depends very much on what you are looking for from your PaaS solution.
The table below compares some of the features, functionality and support you get with leading PaaS solution
providers to what Engine Yard brings to the table.
| ENGINE YARD | HEROKU | OPEN SHIFT | |
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| Auto Scaling |  |
(Requires Configuration) |
(Requires Configuration) |
| Automated backups | |
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(Requires Configuration) |
| DevOps Team | |
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| Sysadmin & DBA support | |
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| Monitors your app for you | |
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| Deploys your code for you | |
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| 24×7 support | |
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| Deploy to any AWS zone | |
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Using Engine Yard has enabled the Comestri team to focus on maximum velocity for dev, while relying on a technology partner who can help us with great infrastructure and expert support even for our custom requirements.
Craig Bennett,
CTO, Comestri
We rely on Engine Yard to deliver a flexible, reliable platform with a rock-solid stack, so we don’t have to invest in building internal resources and hiring an ops team. Even with our customized configurations, Engine Yard makes it easy to deploy – we just click a button. We go from development to staging to production with all of our focus on building a great product.
CJ Johnson,
CTO & CoFounder, 3Play Media
With Engine Yard, we get a vast offering from application cloud platform through the amazing customization and deploy system with Chef to the support and professional services. We can attack any of our loftiest goals now.
Michael Smith,
CTO, Canvas
ChannelEyes chose Engine Yard because we were looking for a reliable and scalable platform for a Rails-based social media platform. The support team has been highly responsive, and we've saved countless hours by relying on their technical expertise with deploying high-traffic Rails apps. With that time savings, our developers were able to focus on pushing the technical envelope with multi-layer security, a unique friending engine, as well as messaging.
Jay McBain,
Co-Founder and Chief Social Officer, Channeleyes
Engine Yard has helped us save hundreds of hours on infrastructure work and on deployments. For Ruby on Rails applications, it has been the best PaaS provider for years.
David Zumbrunnen,
Software Engineer, Oxon
We recommend Engine Yard Cloud to all of our clients, including Toyota Kenya, because we get huge time and cost savings. We would need another 5 people to manage infrastructure internally. Instead, we rely on Engine Yard, and we focus our developers on writing code which keeps them and our customers happy.
Shaun Richards,
Managing Partner, Platform45
