[colemannerd]

and the point of the article is that they're light and provide no where near the optionality and features of AWS.

[bduerst]

Amazon doesn't really have a PaaS though, right?

[dmourati]

One could argue the entire suite of AWS products make up a PaaS. One could also argue that Elastic Beanstalk is their standalone PaaS offering.

https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/

[bduerst]

Except that isn't really a PaaS when stacked up to the others like App Engine, Heroku, and Azure.