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Google App Engine is a product, not just a collection of APIs or even an application. The closest thing Amazon has to that is Elastic Beanstalk, which resembles Heroku closely.

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If Beanstalk could compete with Heroku, no one would use Heroku.

It's a pretty shallow clone of even Heroku.

And Heroku is a thin layer on AWS. :)

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