Amazon EC2 vs Google App Engine

Question

For a Vaadin App, that uses a MySQL database and must have lots of files uploaded, which cloud platform is better? Amazon EC2 or Google App Engine? Can I use phpmyadmin in both?

Better in terms of:

Cost
Performance
Deployment and testing ease of management

Thanks!

"Can I use phpmyadmin in both?" You shouldn't use it in **either**. — ceejayoz, Oct 06 '15 at 20:29
There is a key difference between EC2 and Google App Engine: EC2 is infrastructure as a service (IaaS) whereas GAE is platform as a service (PaaS); https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs — Kamran, Oct 07 '15 at 01:42

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 06 '15 at 21:20

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Last time I checked, EC2 had way more features. EC2 is like being in a datacentre with all (mostly) the services you would want or expect.

If you don't need that, then it doesn't really matter.

answered Oct 06 '15 at 21:20

Ryan Babchishin

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It should be noted that Google does have an EC2 competitor (https://cloud.google.com/compute/) though. – ceejayoz Oct 07 '15 at 14:36

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