Isn't that what Google App Engine is?
Heroku is a cloud-based deployment and hosting solution for Ruby apps (and soon to be Node.js javascript apps too). Google App Engine is for Python and Java.
Heroku is a cloud-based deployment and hosting solution for Ruby apps (and soon to be Node.js javascript apps too). Google App Engine is for Python and Java.
The same exact code that you would deploy to a VPS can run on Heroku without issue, save some limitations like the read-only filesystem. That's a big plus.