AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs. Google App Engine

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

273 Reviews and Ratings

Google App Engine

228 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS Elastic Beanstalk	Score7.3 out of 10	N/A	AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the platform-as-a-service offering provided by Amazon and designed to leverage AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).	$35 per month
Google App Engine	Score9.2 out of 10	N/A	Google App Engine is Google Cloud's platform-as-a-service offering. It features pay-per-use pricing and support for a broad array of programming languages.	$0.05 Per Hour Per Instance

Pricing

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Google App Engine

No Charge: $0
Users pay for AWS resources (e.g. EC2, S3 buckets, etc.) used to store and run the application.

Starting Price: $0.05
Per Hour Per Instance
Max Price: $0.30
Per Hour Per Instance

Pricing Offerings
AWS Elastic Beanstalk	Google App Engine
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	AWS Elastic Beanstalk	Google App Engine
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Verified User Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk I selected AWS Elastic Beanstalk mainly because we have been using AWS services for our company. Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk is relatively easier than starting to use a completely new cloud platform. But we are also reviewing Google App Engine, and found out Elastic Beanstalk … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS Elastic Beanstalk is equivalent to Google App Engine in terms of product. I selected AWS Elastic Beanstalk because it was within the stack we were using, and it made sense for us given the other architecture. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk In some of the other companies that I've worked in, I've had the opportunity to work with the above softwares where the structure and architecture of the services was much complicated but the above softwares were able to handle it with more ease and efficiency. The complex … Incentivized Helpful? Partha Roy Lead Product Engineer in Engineering at Fasal - Grow More, Grow Better™ (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk There are many services like AWS Elastic beanstalk, but there are none with the maturity in the platform or the cost-effectiveness of AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Also, AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the oldest among them, so there are more people with AWS experience than the other … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Jenkins Senior Systems Reliability Engineer in Corporate at The Walt Disney Company (Entertainment, 10,001+ employees) Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk I have used App Engine on Google Cloud Platform and App Service on Microsoft Azure. Both offer similar capabilities to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. App Engine has the nice ability to scale to 0 instances when the application has not been in use for some time. This allows for … Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Dickson Director of Engineering in Engineering at NorthOut (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a great option for an organization that's already invested in the AWS ecosystem. The greater the number of complementary features needed by the application (e.g. integrating with Amazon's Elastic Load Balancer, databases, etc), the greater the reward … Incentivized Helpful?	Google Joshua Dickson Director of Engineering in Engineering at NorthOut (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Google App Engine We commonly decide between App Service, Elastic Beanstalk, and App Engine. Normally, we do not have a strong preference for the services, it really comes down to whether or not there are other factors drawing us toward a particular platform. In the case of App Engine, it is a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google App Engine I think that Microsoft and Amazon are simply investing more in their offerings, and there are a bunch of cool PaaS solutions out there as well. Google App Engine is solid, and is probably the right choice for some projects. But ultimately one should evaluate each platform … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Google App Engine

Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Google App Engine
Feature	AWS Elastic Beanstalk 7.9 29 Ratings	Google App Engine 8.7 31 Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces	8.119 Ratings	9.017 Ratings
Scalability	7.229 Ratings	9.031 Ratings
Platform management overhead	8.128 Ratings	9.031 Ratings
Workflow engine capability	7.223 Ratings	9.023 Ratings
Platform access control	8.128 Ratings	9.030 Ratings
Services-enabled integration	8.128 Ratings	8.027 Ratings
Development environment creation	7.228 Ratings	9.028 Ratings
Development environment replication	8.129 Ratings	8.027 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification	8.128 Ratings	9.027 Ratings
Issue recovery	9.126 Ratings	9.025 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes	8.127 Ratings	8.028 Ratings

User Ratings
	AWS Elastic Beanstalk	Google App Engine
Likelihood to Recommend	7.2 (29 ratings)	8.0 (35 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.9 (2 ratings)	8.3 (8 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (10 ratings)	7.7 (7 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (12 ratings)	8.4 (12 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.0 (2 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)