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24 alternatives to Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button

Hi HN! Porter Cloud (https://porter.run/porter-cloud) is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) like Heroku, but we make it easy for you to migrate to AWS, Azure, or GCP when you're ready. Like Heroku, Porter takes care of a lot of generic DevOps work for you (like setting up CI/CD, containerizing your applications, autoscaling, SSL certificates, setting up a reverse proxy) and lets you deploy your apps with a few clicks — saving you a lot of time while developing. However, as you probably know, there’s a downside: platforms like this become constraining if and when your app…

Porter Cloud is a platform-as-a-service that handles DevOps tasks like CI/CD setup, containerization, autoscaling, and SSL certificates, allowing developers to deploy applications with a few clicks. It is designed for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Porter▲415

    Heroku that runs in your own cloud

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    Heroku that runs in your own cloud (AWS/GCP/DO)

    2021 · porter.run · its alternatives →

  3. 3
    SetOps▲313

    Cloud deployment made for developers

    2022 · its alternatives →

  4. 4
    Porter▲107

    PaaS you cannot outgrow

    2023 · porter.run · its alternatives →

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    Deploy your applications to any cloud provider or your own servers. No lock-in, full control. From 1 to 1000 servers with Cloud 66

    2013 · cloud66.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6

    Build web apps in pure Python + deploy with a single command

    2024 · reflex.dev · its alternatives →

  7. 7
    Render▲318

    Hey HN, I'm Anurag, founder and CEO of Render, a cloud for application developers. We've just launched Render Workflows, a way to define durable tasks by decorating plain TypeScript or Python functions and running them on Render without operating queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management. Code example below [1]. The use cases we have in mind include agent loops, ETL/data pipelines, billing flows, and other long-running jobs. The model is simple: mark an existing function as a Task, deploy the repo as a Workflow, then trigger runs from your application code or via our API.…

    2019 · render.com · its alternatives →

  8. 8

    A reimagined PaaS (Platform as a Service) for all your apps

    2020 · digitalocean.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    GraphQL database platform

    2018 · app.prisma.io · its alternatives →

  10. 10
    n8n.cloud▲405

    Powerful workflow automation tool

    2020 · n8n.io · its alternatives →

  11. 11

    Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids - caprover/README.md at master · caprover/caprover

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    The free cloud for doers & dreamers

    2021 · its alternatives →

  13. 13
    Heroku▲115

    Cloud application platform

    2014 · heroku.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    Deploy Django on a cloud server you own. Appliku manages the server, and its CLI and agent skill let your AI coding agent deploy and diagnose your app.

    2021 · appliku.com · its alternatives →

  15. 15

    Instantly query your cloud, code, logs & more with SQL. Build on thousands of open-source benchmarks & dashboards for security & insights.

    2021 · steampipe.io · its alternatives →

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    The right infrastructure, auto-provisioned in your cloud

    2022 · nitric.io · its alternatives →

  17. 17

    Build full stack apps better and faster than everyone else

    2022 · serverless.com · its alternatives →

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    PipeOps▲102

    No code tool for cloud deployment & infrastructure mgmt

    2023 · pipeops.io · its alternatives →

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    Prisma Cloud is the most complete Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) for code to cloud security in any cloud, multicloud, and hybrid environment.

    2017 · twistlock.com · its alternatives →

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    IOpipe▲107

    Application operations platform for serverless

    2017 · iopipe.com · its alternatives →

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    Complete CloudOps for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Flowpipe [1] is a new open source [2] cloud scripting engine from Turbot [3]. Some of you may already use Steampipe [4], our open-source [5] tool to live query cloud APIs. We believe DevOps teams need an easier way to orchestrate their cloud, build workflows and respond to events. But - because it's DevOps - that must be in code. In Flowpipe, pipelines are written in HCL and use simple primitives for HTTP requests, executing containers, running Lambda-compatible functions, querying databases like Steampipe and more. We have also published a large ecosystem of open source Flowpipe Mods [6].…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    Get the most out of your data in the cloud

    2022 · double.cloud · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    Managed RAG pipelines, made easy

    2025 · blog.cloudflare.com · its alternatives →

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