Pivotal Web Services (PWS) vs tsuru: What are the differences?

What is Pivotal Web Services (PWS)? Deploy, Update and Scale Applications On-Demand. Pivotal Web Services is a public cloud version of the widely supported Open Source Cloud Foundry PaaS. PWS makes is an ideal platform for the rapid deployment, easy scaling and binding of third party apps for Java, PHP, Ruby, GO and Python apps. Focus on apps not dev ops.

What is tsuru? Extensible and open source Platform as a Service software. tsuru is an open source polyglot cloud application platform (PaaS). With tsuru, you don’t need to think about servers at all. You can write apps in the programming language of your choice, back it with add-on resources such as SQL and NoSQL databases, memcached, redis, and many others. You manage your app using the tsuru command-line tool and you deploy code using the Git revision control system, all running on the tsuru infrastructure.

Pivotal Web Services (PWS) and tsuru belong to "Platform as a Service" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Pivotal Web Services (PWS) are:

• Marketplace for 3rd party services
• Cloud Foundry Support
• Easy Deployment

On the other hand, tsuru provides the following key features:

• Fast and secure. The entire process is really simple with no special tools needed, just a simple git push.
• Scaling in Tsuru is completely painless. Just add a unit and Tsuru will take care of everything else.
• Tsuru is built to be extensible. Through services you can provide anything your application needs.

tsuru is an open source tool with 3.14K GitHub stars and 421 GitHub forks. Here's a link to tsuru's open source repository on GitHub.