Platform.sh delivers more than AWS
Wave goodbye to tedious infrastructure training, provision projects in minutes, and work with the IaaS of your choosing at no additional cost with Platform.sh and our IaaS partner, AWS. You don’t need an AWS alternative, you just need to add Platform.sh. We provide more flexibility, more choice, and more time for innovation for your team. No matter the project, we enable your development team to focus on what they do best - developing new digital experiences.
Watch a demoFree trialKey differentiators
Automation is the default
With Platform.sh, there's no need to spend countless hours training on how to work infrastructure. Instead, your team can focus on innovation and delivering new features.
Immediate environments
Provision new projects and as many new environments as you need in minutes, not hours. Enjoy a fully integrated CI pipeline to build your site on the fly.
Infrastructure as code
Manage infrastructure directly from your git repository. Want to add a new service for caching? It’s just a few lines of config away. No support tickets, no waiting time.
Multi cloud
With every project, you can choose any major IaaS provider you prefer with no extra configuration, refactoring, or new pricing needed. Whether it's AWS, Azure, or Orange - we've got you covered.
Why choose Platform.sh over AWS?
Modern organizations need a better solution to meet customer demands. Platform.sh is the modern PaaS for organizations to build, run, and scale websites and web applications.
New project creation
Minutes
24/7 Monitoring
Included (for Enterprise)
Security updates and maintenance
Included
Integrated tools (e.g. CDN, APM, CI/CD)
Included
Website cloning
Unlimited Cloning
Hosting partner
Five hosting partners to give you the most choice: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Orange, OVHcloud
All at a lower cost than AWS
Comparison based on plans for a 500,000 monthly pageviews site.
Platform.sh
Professional
$135
Medium, Low traffic, multiple apps
- 3 GB memory
- Medium-to-higher traffic websites
- Microservice apps or multidatabase apps
- 500,000 monthly pageviews, uncached
- Elasticsearch, Solr, Meilisearch, or any custom search
AWS
Unspecified
$251
4x c5.large instances (production, 3x development) with 5G, 20G S3 Backup space (on-demand pricing)
- No built-in infrastructure as code
- CI/CD: extra tooling needed
- You need to install all components (OS, runtime, services)
- You need to handle security and maintenance
- Static staging/development systems
The Platform.sh Professional Medium tier can serve 500,000 pageviews per month, uncached, at a price of $135/month. If your app is cacheable, you can serve far more, and we won’t charge you extra.
With Platform.sh, you also get
Highly scalable & available
Platform.sh can provide 99.99% high-availability guarantees for mission-critical sites, as well as an SLA of less than an hour for urgent tickets.
Platform.sh runs thousands of ecommerce sites and has extensive experience managing mission-critical applications. We’ve designed triple-redundant architecture to ensure even transactional sites are fault-tolerant.
Platform.sh can also scale up any site as needed, without downtime, when there’s a surge of traffic.
Learn moreSecurity
We take security and compliance seriously. For some countries and companies, that means hosting locally, too. Not only are we SOC 2 certified, we’re compliant with the CASL in Canada and with Germany’s BDSG and strict data locality and access rules.
Learn moreChoice is good — that's why Platform.sh is multicloud
AWS works with only a single IaaS partner.
But not Platform.sh. We make it easy to use the IaaS provider that works best for your business, whether your choice is based on data locality for compliance, getting your application as close to your end users as possible, or simply preference.
Learn moreYou choose where you want to run your applications
Need a custom location? Let's talk