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Re:Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastr... by manojlds on Friday February 12, 2016 @01:07AM (#11085596)
What about Heroku, then? They are on AWS, and compete with AWS.
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Re:Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastr... by eyuelt on Friday February 12, 2016 @01:27AM (#11085635)
AWS and Heroku aren't really competitors. Firstly, since AWS is IaaS, whereas Heroku is PaaS, they target different users. More importantly, Heroku is built on top of AWS, so Amazon gets paid for all the resources used by Heroku apps.
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Re:Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastr... by anindyabd on Friday February 12, 2016 @01:41AM (#11085670)
AWS has Elastic Beanstalk, which is a Heroku competitor.
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Re:Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastr... by derefr on Friday February 12, 2016 @04:26AM (#11086105)
Sort of. They're still targeted at different users, though.

Heroku is for individual developers to directly develop their app in terms of.

AWS, meanwhile, is mostly for enterprises: it's a "virtual datacenter" for your (much-reduced) ops team to manage in place of a real datacenter. In that sense, Elastic Beanstalk is not a service that AWS provides developers—it's a service that AWS provides your ops team to provide to in turn provide to your developers.

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Re:Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastr... by riffraff on Friday February 12, 2016 @02:22AM (#11085777)
AWS' RDS offer also directly competes with heroku's Postgres packages
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Re:Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastr... by abrookewood on Friday February 12, 2016 @01:44AM (#11085679)
Not strictly true. Elastic Beanstalk is PaaS.
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