We performed a comparison between Google App Engine and Heroku based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is okay. It's not too complex. Deployment took about one day."
"The solution is serverless, so we don't have to operate it."
"The product's setup and deployment phases are easy."
"Google App Engine's most valuable feature is self-management. You do not have to manage the infrastructure underneath where all the functions are happening, such as load balancing deployment and version management, they are managed by the system itself."
"Administering App Engine is simple; it has intuitive UIs and a very scalable app engine."
"I've found that all of the features are valuable, especially the shared drive and the ability for multiple people to use their documents at the same time."
"Its ability to integrate with most devices helps users who have different or old devices."
"The WhatApp feature is the most valuable."
"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."
"One of the best things about Heroku is that it is very easy and straightforward to deploy an application."
"We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites."
"Valuable for us was the fast deployment. This means the time to market is improved without pain for developers."
"The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."
"It's easy to push a change and to deploy new things."
"I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards."
"The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Data consumption of the device could be improved."
"There needs to be more directions in terms of how to use the solution."
"The only concern is that there is a number of the offerings which are built on their own proprietary technologies. With some of the offerings in Google Cloud, it's difficult to have a path to migrate to other cloud providers."
"I think there's still a lot that can be done with Google Meet and the video conferencing part of it. It could be more dynamic in terms of what can be done with it."
"The support for the Indian region is not as good as compared to the support that is offered to the regions in Europe."
"The documentation and community are lacking for this product."
"I am limited to sending a photo to five people. I want to be able to send a photo to many people, not just five."
"We have to do daily restarts of some processes, which is annoying, and the support for custom CI could be better."
"We don't find the pipelines intuitive. The user experience could be better. Having to set up multiple apps, then a pipeline, seems like an overkill on the amount of work to do."
"They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more."
"I improved the application performance by monitoring and adjusting the cleaner configuration to help set better lightweight limits on containers that run the app instances."
"I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely."
"We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert."
"Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure."
"Heroku had an authentication problem a few months ago, but they solved it."
Google App Engine is ranked 10th in PaaS Clouds with 23 reviews while Heroku is ranked 13th in PaaS Clouds with 27 reviews. Google App Engine is rated 8.2, while Heroku is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google App Engine writes "Simplifies app development process for businesses". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Heroku writes "Useful for mobile and web applications, and helps with rapid development cycle ". Google App Engine is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Compute Engine and OpenShift, whereas Heroku is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Amazon Lightsail. See our Google App Engine vs. Heroku report.
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