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Google App Engine

Top Con

Not a core Google product faces uncertin future

Google is notorious with flipping on technology directions, this product is clearly not the focus of Google. See More

Top Pro

Increases application speed considerably

Google App Engine integrates with Google's CDN out of the box and it distributes your application's assets through that, increasing loading speed considerably. See More

Top Con

Expenses are very hard to control

The monitoring for expenses is limited at best. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

Google App Engine is very easy to use. All you need to do is install the SDK (which in itself is easy as well, and the documentation is very heplful) and run the command needed depending on the type of project to deploy it. For example, to deploy a golang application, you run golang deploy inside the project folder and it will be automatically deployed. See More

Top Con

Problematic support even in the paid grade

Top Con

No SQL database available

Google App Engine uses Google's NoSQL cloud database. There's no option to use a SQL database with your application. See More

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Convox

Top Pro

Can use Docker images and containers out of the box

Convox is built on Docker and deployments are made using Docker containers. Because of this, developers have a large number of existing Docker images to choose from with which they can customize their environment to suit their needs. See More

Top Con

Only supports AWS

Convox is a PaaS that can be installed and deployed on existing AWS instances. There are plans to support other cheaper alternatives in the future, but for now only AWS is supported. See More

Top Pro

Only pay for the hosting

Since Convox itself is a free and open source software, you do not have to pay for using it. Developers only have to pay for the cloud hosting itself (in this case AWS instance) where Convox will be deployed. See More

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