App Engine alternative for PHP/MySQL

Question

Does anyone know of a company that allows us to deploy PHP/MySQL applications on their cloud platform similar to Google App Engine? We would like the platform to be user-friendly as well as autoscale without intervention.

1. I don't want to SSH into every server in order to update the servers.
2. We need a MySQL database that autoscales, auto-shards, and automatically replicates.
3. Auto firewall configuration for the newly-created instances or existing servers.

Answer 1

One alternative for PHP based (cloud) apps is PHP Fog. It also appears to have the MySQL capability you need.

Since this service is essentially a cloud hosted service, you won't need to deal with the underlying layers so it takes care of your firewall configuration and similar requirements.

Answer 2

recently i saw an article about pagodabox
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/elevate-your-php-to-the-cloud
http://pagodabox.com/