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What are Cloud Application Platforms?

Gartner defines cloud application platforms as those that provide managed application runtime environments for applications and integrated capabilities to manage the life cycle of an application or application component. They typically enable distributed application deployments and support cloud-style operations — such as elasticity, multitenancy and self-service — without requiring infrastructure provisioning or container management.

Cloud application platforms are designed to facilitate the deployment, runtime execution, and management of modern cloud-native or cloud-optimized applications (e.g., web-based apps, back-end services with/without APIs, etc.) without the need to manage any underlying compute infrastructure. Also, they are designed to enhance developer productivity, accelerate development and deployment cycles, and increase operational effectiveness by making it easier to scale on demand.

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AWS Lambda

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.7
(321 Ratings)

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

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VMware Tanzu Platform

By Broadcom (VMware)

4.2
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DigitalOcean App Platform​

By DigitalOcean

4.9
(38 Ratings)

DigitalOcean focuses on streamlining cloud computing to enable businesses to spend more time on software development. The company provides critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings to help startups and growing digital businesses to quickly build, deploy, and scale various digital tools and products. Furthermore, DigitalOcean utilizes simplicity, security, a supportive community, and efficient customer service to allow businesses to focus more on creating innovative applications that contribute to growth, rather than managing their infrastructure.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.4
(29 Ratings)

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

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Oracle Java Cloud Service

By Oracle

4.2
(27 Ratings)

Oracle is a cloud technology company that offers computing infrastructure and software solutions globally. This organization has developed an autonomous database, the first of its kind, to help manage and secure data. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure presents functionalities to facilitate the transition of workloads from on-site systems to the cloud, and vice versa, as well as between different clouds. Oracle's cloud software applications provide modern tools designed to support sustainable growth and resilience in businesses. Tools developed by Oracle are used by a wide range of users including nonprofit organizations and businesses of various sizes, to aid in operations like supply chain streamlining, human resource management, financial planning and connecting data and global users. Apart from business solutions, Oracle's technology also aids in tasks ranging from government defense to scientific and medical research.

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Cloudflare Workers

By Cloudflare

4.8
(26 Ratings)

Cloudflare, is a provider of WAAP, SASE, SSE, SD-WAN, CDN, and Edge Developer services. Cloudflare empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare delivers all services from a single intelligent global network platform, providing customers with a unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.

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Vercel Platform

By Vercel

4.6
(20 Ratings)

Vercel’s Frontend Cloud gives developers the tools and infrastructure needed to build faster, more personalized web experiences. By combining a developer-friendly toolkit with global infrastructure, Vercel transforms ideas into scalable applications instantly. Teams benefit from a fully managed, optimized cloud platform that simplifies building dynamic, high-performance user experiences—whether you’re an individual developer or an enterprise team.

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Cloudflare Pages

By Cloudflare

4.7
(16 Ratings)

Cloudflare, is a provider of WAAP, SASE, SSE, SD-WAN, CDN, and Edge Developer services. Cloudflare empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare delivers all services from a single intelligent global network platform, providing customers with a unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.

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AWS Amplify

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.5
(11 Ratings)

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

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AWS App Runner

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.9
(8 Ratings)

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

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Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)

By Microsoft

4.6
(5 Ratings)

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement.

Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

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Render

By Render

5
(4 Ratings)

Render is a modern cloud application platform that empowers every developer and team to ship applications quickly, confidently, and at scale. Built for fast-growing companies, Render offers broad and deep cloud capabilities with a strong focus on developer experience. Render offers HTTP/3, autoscaling, zero-downtime deploys, managed SSL, private networking, managed databases, built-in DDoS protection, managed secrets and configuration, persistent block storage, preview environments, one-off & scheduled job processing, a CLI, REST API, and Infrastructure-as-Code both natively and with Terraform.

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Clever Cloud

By Clever Cloud

4.7
(2 Ratings)

Clever Cloud is a European cloud provider that helps companies build, run, and scale applications with reliability and efficiency. Its platform offers managed services such as databases, object storage, IAM, and monitoring, while ensuring compliance, security, and data protection. With a strong commitment to open source and European digital autonomy, Clever Cloud empowers organizations to innovate faster, optimize costs, and retain full control over their infrastructure.

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Cloud Run

By Google

5
(2 Ratings)

Googlers is a company that creates products intended to create opportunities for an extensive audience, regardless of their location across the globe. The company values diverse perspectives, imaginations and non-conformity to predefined norms and impossibilities. The goal is to build products while incorporating uniqueness of each individual involved in this process, aiming to make their products accessible and useful to all.

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Heroku

By Salesforce

3.7
(2 Ratings)

Salesforce is a company that integrates artificial intelligence with customer relationship management and data to create solutions for customer-related concerns. Salesforce's primary business problem is to enhance the interaction between businesses and their customers by leveraging technology.

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Netlify

By Netlify

5
(2 Ratings)

Netlify is a modern web development platform that makes it easier for web teams to build, collaborate, and scale modern cloud applications with speed and flexibility. The value for large businesses is the ability to adapt quickly, innovate continuously, and stay ahead of the competition—without compromising performance or flexibility.

Key features of the Netlify Composable Platform include:

Integrated Development Platform: (front end development + data unification + visual content editing) for cross functional teams.

Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance: (HIPAA, WAP, security scorecard).

Flexible, Framework-Agnostic Environment: Built to support any modern web stack with platform primitives, frameworks API, AI build failure assist.

Robust Partner Ecosystem: Partnerships like Github, Sitecore, Optimizely, and Astro (among many) offer a rich ecosystem of integrations, ensuring seamless workflows and extensibility tailored to enterprise requirements.

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Railway

By Railway

5
(2 Ratings)

Railway simplifies your infrastructure stack from servers to observability with a single, scalable, easy-to-use platform. Build and Deploy: Craft a complete full-stack application with a powerful visual canvas. Network and Connect: Interconnect your application seamlessly with highly performant networking. Scale and Grow: Scale your applications with intuitive vertical and horizontal scaling. Monitor and Observe: Fix code faster with fully configurable observability. Manage Development Environments: Accelerate your development lifecycle with isolated environments, staged changes, and pull request deploys.

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Firebase

By Google

5
(1 Rating)

Googlers is a company that creates products intended to create opportunities for an extensive audience, regardless of their location across the globe. The company values diverse perspectives, imaginations and non-conformity to predefined norms and impossibilities. The goal is to build products while incorporating uniqueness of each individual involved in this process, aiming to make their products accessible and useful to all.

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Google App Engine

By Google

4
(1 Rating)

Googlers is a company that creates products intended to create opportunities for an extensive audience, regardless of their location across the globe. The company values diverse perspectives, imaginations and non-conformity to predefined norms and impossibilities. The goal is to build products while incorporating uniqueness of each individual involved in this process, aiming to make their products accessible and useful to all.

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Linode Kubernetes Engine

By Akamai

4
(1 Rating)

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences – helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. Akamai Connected Cloud, a massively distributed edge and cloud platform, puts apps and experiences closer to users and keeps threats farther away.

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Features of Cloud Application Platforms (Transitioning to Cloud-Native Application Platforms)

Updated November 2024

Mandatory Features:

  • Application monitoring and observability — support for monitoring and observability to improve service-level objectives; gathering production telemetry (logs, metrics, events, traces).

  • Cloud-based managed service — vendor (service provider) handles the maintenance, monitoring, updates and troubleshooting of the cloud application platform. This includes support, security, backups and performance optimization. It allows users to only focus on the application that can be deployed on cloud application platforms.

  • Autoscaling (load balancing, scalability and running of multiple instances).

  • Application runtime services (including language runtime support) for multiple application types including web applications, mobile backends, microservices, AI/ML models, and analytics applications without requiring infrastructure provisioning or container management.

  • Automated deployment of cloud-native applications (e.g., integration with DevOps).

Gartner Research

Magic Quadrant for Cloud Application Platforms (Transitioning to Cloud-Native Application Platforms)
Critical Capabilities for Cloud Application Platforms (Transitioning to Cloud-Native Application Platforms)

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