Convox member here.<p>CloudFoundry is a really solid platform, but there is a very important distinction between CloudFoundry and Convox.<p>Convox is a very thin layer on top of &quot;raw&quot; AWS. It gives you a PaaS abstraction but behind the scenes is well configures VPC, ECS, Kinesis, Lambda, KMS, etc.<p>For those of us with no need to run on multiple clouds, using pure AWS is simpler, cheaper and more reliable than a middleware like CloudFoundry or Deis.<p>If you want to run a private platform without bringing in operation dependencies like etcd (Deis) or Lattice (CloudFoundry), give Convox a look.