PaaS / App Hosting
20 providers in this category.
Platform-as-a-Service hosts deploy your application straight from a repository or container, handling build, runtime, scaling, and routing so you never touch a server. They trade some control for speed, which makes them a fast path to shipping apps and APIs. Compare supported languages, build and deploy ergonomics, the scaling model, and how cost grows with traffic.
Companies
Neutral ordering. Not a recommendation.
Aptible
www.aptible.com
Aptible is a compliance-first platform-as-a-service that packages hosting with the security controls regulated startups need: encryption, audit logging, access management, and HIPAA business associate agreements out of the box.
AWS App Runner
aws.amazon.com/apprunner
AWS App Runner is a fully managed container platform that builds and runs web services directly from source code or a container image, handling load balancing, autoscaling, and TLS automatically.
Azure App Service
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/app-service
Azure App Service is Microsoft's managed platform for hosting web apps, APIs, and containers, positioned as the Azure peer of Google App Engine.
Clever Cloud
www.clever-cloud.com
Clever Cloud is a French platform-as-a-service from Nantes that deploys applications with git push across many runtimes (Node.js, PHP, Java, Python, Rust and more) plus managed databases.
Cloudflare Pages
pages.cloudflare.com
Cloudflare Pages is a Jamstack platform that builds and serves static sites and full-stack applications on Cloudflare's global edge network, with server-side logic running as Pages Functions on Workers.
DigitalOcean App Platform
www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform
DigitalOcean App Platform is a fully managed platform-as-a-service that builds, deploys, and scales apps from source code or container images without managing servers.
Fly.io
fly.io
Fly.io is a platform for running applications and databases close to users by deploying containers across a global network of around 35 regions.
Google App Engine
cloud.google.com/appengine
Google App Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform-as-a-service within Google Cloud for building and deploying web apps and APIs without managing infrastructure.
Heroku
www.heroku.com
Heroku is a platform-as-a-service, owned by Salesforce, for deploying and running applications without managing infrastructure.
Koyeb
www.koyeb.com
Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform for deploying APIs, full applications, inference workloads, and databases globally with minimal configuration.
Netlify
www.netlify.com
Netlify is a platform for building and hosting web front-ends, with Git-based deploys, serverless functions, and edge delivery.
Northflank
northflank.com
Northflank is a self-service and enterprise platform-as-a-service for deploying applications, jobs, managed databases, and CI/CD pipelines, in Northflank's own cloud or in the customer's via Bring Your Own Cloud.