AWS CodeStar vs Anvil

Overview

AWS CodeStar

Stacks24

Followers171

Votes8

Anvil

Stacks51

Followers219

Votes23

Anvil vs AWS CodeStar: What are the differences?

Developers describe Anvil as "Drag and Drop Python Web App Builder". Anvil is a platform for building and hosting full-stack web apps written entirely in Python. Drag & drop your UI, then write Python on the front-end and back-end to make it all work. Web development has never been this easy (or fast)!. On the other hand, AWS CodeStar is detailed as "Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS". Start new software projects on AWS in minutes using templates for web applications, web services and more.

Anvil and AWS CodeStar can be categorized as "Platform as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by Anvil are:

Drag and drop UI builder
Full-stack Python
Client-side Python

On the other hand, AWS CodeStar provides the following key features:

Start developing on AWS in minutes
Manage software delivery in one place
Work across your team securely

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Detailed Comparison

AWS CodeStar	Anvil
Start new software projects on AWS in minutes using templates for web applications, web services and more.	Anvil is a platform for building and hosting full-stack web apps written entirely in Python. Drag & drop your UI, then write Python on the front-end and back-end to make it all work. Web development has never been this easy (or fast)!
Start developing on AWS in minutes;Manage software delivery in one place;Work across your team securely;Choose from a variety of project templates	Drag and drop UI builder; Full-stack Python; Client-side Python; Built-in database; Built-in user authentication; Simple integration with existing services and code; On-site installation supported; Expose REST APIs with one line of code; Rich set of UI components: Forms, plotting, maps, and more; Built-in support for all your favourite Python packages; Simple but powerful version control; Team collaboration; Active Directory integration
Statistics
Stacks 24	Stacks 51
Followers 171	Followers 219
Votes 8	Votes 23
Pros & Cons
Pros 3 Simple to set up 2 Manual Steps Available 1 Integrations 1 GitHub integration 1 Flexible	Pros 6 Fast dashboards deployment 4 Python everywhere 4 Open source 3 Drag-and-drop UI builder 3 Easy to deploy
Integrations
Amazon EC2 AWS Lambda AWS Elastic Beanstalk Jira	Google Drive Stripe Python Plotly.js Google Maps

What are some alternatives to AWS CodeStar, Anvil?

Heroku

Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

Clever Cloud

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Google App Engine

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Red Hat OpenShift

OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Once you upload your application, Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.

Render

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Hasura

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Cloud 66

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Jelastic

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Dokku

It is an extensible, open source Platform as a Service that runs on a single server of your choice. It helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications from building to scaling.