Amazon AppStream vs scikit-image: What are the differences?

What is Amazon AppStream? Stream resource intensive applications and games from the cloud. AppStream deploys and renders your application on AWS infrastructure and streams the output to mass-market devices, such as personal computers, tablets, and mobile phones. Because your application is running in the cloud, it can scale to handle vast computational and storage needs, regardless of the devices your customers are using. You can choose to stream either all or parts of your application from the cloud. Amazon AppStream enables use cases for games and applications that wouldn’t be possible running natively on mass-market devices. Using Amazon AppStream, your games and applications are no longer constrained by the hardware in your customer’s hands.

What is scikit-image? Image processing in Python. scikit-image is a collection of algorithms for image processing.

Amazon AppStream can be classified as a tool in the "Application Streaming" category, while scikit-image is grouped under "Image Processing and Management".

Some of the features offered by Amazon AppStream are:

• Amazon AppStream includes a SDK that currently supports streaming applications from Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 to devices running FireOS, Android, iOS, and Microsoft Windows. &nbsp
• A Mac OS X SDK is planned for 2014.
• Remove Device Constraints- You can leverage the compute power of AWS to deliver experiences that wouldn’t normally be possible due to the GPU, CPU, memory or physical storage constraints of local devices.

On the other hand, scikit-image provides the following key features:

• Provides I/O, filtering, morphology, transformations, measurement, annotation, color conversions, test data sets, etc.
• Written in Python with a well-commented source code
• Has had 5,709 commits made by 116 contributors representing 29,953 lines of code

"Customization" is the primary reason why developers consider Amazon AppStream over the competitors, whereas "More powerful" was stated as the key factor in picking scikit-image.

scikit-image is an open source tool with 4.3K GitHub stars and 1.79K GitHub forks. Here's a link to scikit-image's open source repository on GitHub.