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. It is AWS's closest equivalent to a Heroku-style PaaS, positioned below ECS and EKS in operational complexity. Billing is usage-based per vCPU and memory with scale-to-zero-like pausing of compute charges. It suits AWS-standardized teams that want container deployment without infrastructure management.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2021
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- No
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Cloud infrastructure
- Starting price
- Usage-based
- Regions
- 10
- SLA uptime
- 0%
- Managed Kubernetes
- No
- Helm support
- No
- Free tier
- No
- Vendor lock-in
- Medium
- Open standards
- No
- Easy data export
- Yes
- Multi-cloud friendly
- No
- Org size
- Enterprise
- Support tier
- Enterprise
- Ease of use
- 3/5