Engine Yard vs. Google Cloud Functions vs. Oracle Application Container Cloud (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Engine Yard
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Engine Yard is a platform-as-a-service solution allowing developers to plan, build, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud. Engine Yard also provides services for deployment, managing AWS, supporting databases, and microservices & container development.
$800
Per Month Per Cluster
Google Cloud Functions
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Google Cloud Functions enables users to run code in the cloud with no servers or containers to manage. Cloud Functions is a scalable, pay-as-you-go functions as a service (FaaS) product to help build and connect event driven services with simple, single purpose code.N/A
Oracle Application Container Cloud (discontinued)
Score 2.0 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Application Container Cloud was a PaaS supporting the development of cloud native, 12-factor applications on a modern polyglot platform with Java EE, Java SE, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, GO and .NET. The service was discontinued in 2025.N/A
Pricing
Engine YardGoogle Cloud FunctionsOracle Application Container Cloud (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
Platform
$800.00
Per Month Per Cluster
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No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Engine YardGoogle Cloud FunctionsOracle Application Container Cloud (discontinued)
Free Trial
YesNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Engine Yard
-
Ratings
Google Cloud Functions
10.0
1 Ratings
10% above category average
Oracle Application Container Cloud (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Engine Yard
-
Ratings
Google Cloud Functions
10.0
1 Ratings
36% above category average
Oracle Application Container Cloud (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Dashboards00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Function as a Service (FaaS)
Comparison of Function as a Service (FaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Engine Yard
-
Ratings
Google Cloud Functions
10.0
1 Ratings
14% above category average
Oracle Application Container Cloud (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Programming Language Diversity00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Runtime API Authoring00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Function/Database Integration00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
DevOps Stack Integration00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Engine Yard
-
Ratings
Google Cloud Functions
-
Ratings
Oracle Application Container Cloud (discontinued)
5.0
1 Ratings
43% below category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Engine YardGoogle Cloud FunctionsOracle Application Container Cloud (discontinued)
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.3 out of 10
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.3 out of 10
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Engine Yard
It is best for rapidly getting your application to the cloud without worrying about standing up cloud infrastructure
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Google
It is easy to use, in 15 minutes you just have to follow a few steps, do some easy configurations and you have the project ready to run, once it is connected to the codebase, the execution is automatic. For anyone coming into the google environment, Functions make code execution easy and transparent. CI/CD is perfect
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Discontinued Products
For how it is used within the organization it is perfectly fine. We use it for benefits, salary, and vacation tracking. It does make it easy to find your information within the system and make changes.
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Pros
Engine Yard
  • Quick deployments
  • Easily integrate your code from GitHub
  • Ability to recover site quickly to different zone when AWS has a widespread outage
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Google
  • integration with oAuth
  • integration with Firebase
  • integration with React Frontend
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Discontinued Products
  • Ease of use.
  • User-friendly.
  • Sleek layout.
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Cons
Engine Yard
  • Embracing new Amazon Web Servicess(AWS) features
  • Security groups need more granularity
  • Audit trails of what happens by who in environment, especially when VM is deleted
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Google
  • Needing a zip file is problematic (when wanting to automate deployment for example).
  • Requires another solution to execute automatically (ex. cloud scheduler).
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Discontinued Products
  • Fewer tabs.
  • More direct access to information.
  • More insight into where approvals are within the system.
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Likelihood to Renew
Engine Yard
Ease of use
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Google
No answers on this topic
Discontinued Products
I am not a part of the team that would make this decision but as far as I know they are happy with the platform and how it performs.
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Usability
Engine Yard
No answers on this topic
Google
Overall Google Cloud Functions is losing a lot of benefits to other GCP services, making it less attractive to users. A simple example would be the need to zip application files and push them to Google Storage which makes it a bit complicated to automate via a CI/CD pipeline. Another "similar" solution would be using Cloud Run although the need for a docker image is there, with the recent evolutions to Cloud Run (ability to downscale to 0) it makes a lot more interesting.
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Discontinued Products
Incredibly easy to use and learn how to use. The interface is extremely easy to use.
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Support Rating
Engine Yard
No answers on this topic
Google
Documentation is provided and clear for this service. Although GCP support is included in the current contract we didn't get to use it since the process is pretty straightforward.
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Discontinued Products
The team who helps with the issue is very helpful when resolving the issue and usually can handle it in a very timely manner.
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Implementation Rating
Engine Yard
No answers on this topic
Google
No answers on this topic
Discontinued Products
The system is very easy to use.
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Alternatives Considered
Engine Yard
More closely aligns to native AWS
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Google
It is easier to keep everything in house when we are using GCP or AWS. To mix Lambda with google cloud is not a best practice and will cause problems ahead. The segmentation is clear, if you are using google, you use Google Cloud Functions. if you are on Amazon, you use all AWS tools. You can't mix them. The price is set.
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Engine Yard
  • Positive in the sense that we can deploy new applications quickly for MVP
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Google
  • For training purposes, it is free
  • Budgeting makes it cap the use
  • monitoring makes it predictable
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Discontinued Products
  • Employee Empowerment
  • Reduced lagtime
  • Connects correct people to correct situations
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