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24 alternatives to Porter

PaaS you cannot outgrow

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Porter launched in 2023; 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. 2PC

    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…

    2024 · its alternatives →

  3. 3

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

    2021 · porter.run · its alternatives →

  4. 4

    The kick-ass PaaS

    2024 · ravion.com · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    Full stack on AWS in one click

    2022 · manylives.io · its alternatives →

  6. 6
    Infrabase▲142

    We too at first thought that letting an LLM manage your AWS account must be a bad idea. What could possibly go wrong?? However we couldn’t resist building it, and when we did, we were surprised how much it can do even in plain vanilla form, which currently is just the ai-sdk frontend with some aws sdk code generation (inspared by aws-mcp). We all but stopped using the AWS console internally and switched to Infrabase - a lot of the time it’s much faster to prompt than to click around in AWS console, especially for things that involve multiple steps, IAM roles, etc. So we started to think of…

    2025 · infrabase.co · its alternatives →

  7. 7
    CNDI▲101

    Self host cloud native apps with the ease of PaaS

    2023 · cndi.dev · its alternatives →

  8. 8

    Developer-first AWS infrastructure

    2023 · ravion.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9
    Up▲334

    Deploy serverless apps and APIs in seconds to AWS Lambda

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    The right infrastructure, auto-provisioned in your cloud

    2022 · nitric.io · its alternatives →

  11. 11
    PATR▲327

    Make deployments on your cloud easy again

    2023 · patr.cloud · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    Code to cloud in minutes

    2022 · its alternatives →

  13. 13
    OpsFlow▲148

    Build your stack visually, no-code DevOps

    2022 · opsflow.app · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    Deploy preset templates to AWS in one click

    2022 · dashboard.digger.dev · its alternatives →

  15. 15
    Lemon 2.0▲229

    Alternative UI for AWS

    2022 · uselemon.io · its alternatives →

  16. 16

    Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs rather than focusing on business problems. Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of smaller startups. Here's how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS EC2 costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically,…

    2022 · usage.ai · its alternatives →

  17. 17
    Qovery▲246

    The simplest way to deploy your apps on AWS

    2021 · qovery.com · its alternatives →

  18. 18

    Deploy your app in minutes with serverless architecture

    2023 · scaletozeroaws.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19IB

    Hey HN: I'm Kaveh, the founder of Usage (https://www.usage.ai/) We help companies drive down AWS costs. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. Stakeholders, especially engineers, are required to spend unnecessary time manually finding underutilized or overly expensive EC2s. We believe the optimization process should be done automatically through a series of sophisticated algorithms. At the moment, there are over 70,000 AWS EC2 prices - doing that manually just won't scale at most organizations. My background is in software engineering. Previous to founding Usage, I…

    2020 · its alternatives →

  20. 20
    Terrabook▲194

    A modern IDE for your AWS account

    2022 · terrabook.io · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    A developer-focused app PaaS (platform as a service)

    2022 · sevalla.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    The easiest and fastest way to automate AWS

    2019 · totalcloud.io · its alternatives →

  23. 23U2

    Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We launched on Hacker News for the first time early last year, and we've made a lot of progress since then. We've saved tens of millions of dollars for companies, and we are even more excited to announce the launch of a new product: insured reservations for RDS! We worked closely with AWS on this feature and are excited to finally make it generally available. We help companies drive down AWS EC2 & RDS spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs…

    2023 · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    Native macOS app for your AWS console

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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