Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud vs Nanobox
A side-by-side look at Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Nanobox. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon EC2 is a cloud computing service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It allows users to launch virtual server instances that run on Amazon's infrastructure. EC2 enables scalable deployment of applications by providing a web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image to configure a virtual machine.
Nanobox
Nanobox is a development platform for building and deploying applications. It allows developers to create isolated, consistent development environments that can then be deployed anywhere. Nanobox handles infrastructure provisioning, scaling, load balancing, app monitoring, and more.