UPDATED 16:00 EDT / JUNE 29 2011

AppHarbor’s New API Gets Around Azure

.NET developers get a boost from AppHarbor this week, as the company releases an add-on API.  The new developer tool provides a self-service portal for third-party providers, letting developers purchase cloud services directly through their interface, with full integration and additional functionality for the apps built on the AppHarbor platform.  Seamless integration with pre-existing apps also ensures automatic access to the new portal, delivering yet another perk for management within virtualized environments.

A Y-combinator startup, AppHarbor now offers extended support for MongoHQ, Cloudant, Redis to Go and Mailgun.  Each is designed for full and automated integration on the stack, leveraging the cloud for quick deployment and scale-out options for applications.  AppHarbor is joining the sea of companies, a large portion of them startups, that are addressing the many needs around connecting dots in the cloud.  With this AppHarbor is enabling more services to work together, through ready access, with the presentation of add-ons.

“AppHarbor addresses needs that have yet to be resolved by other solutions in the market and this release further differentiates our PaaS offering,” said Michael Friis, co-founder at AppHarbor.

“In a short time, our platform has been adopted by more than 5,000 developers. It fulfills a need that the .NET Community has had for some time. We are extremely excited to announce add-ons that make it extremely easy for our users to purchase the cloud services they desire.”

The API offering also serves as a way for AppHarbor to extend its own business, gaining more partners willing to utilize this API solution as a part of their virtualization packages.  Taking away the “pain of deployment” for the relatively large .NET developer community, AppHarbor is providing answers for an under-served market, positioning itself alongside Microsoft Azure.

With this, AppHarbor is also hoping to enable users to avoid vendor lock-in, a common problem many companies are looking to solve.  The answer is an extended platform that works in an agnostic manner to bridge service providers, freeing Azure users from its internal limitations.  Several other PaaS companies have similar aims of liberating developers, with the official launch of DotCloud among the industry’s most recent developments.


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