// Ship at lightning speed. On your own cloud.
Ship like a giant. Stay lean like a startup.
A developer platform that runs inside the AWS account you already own. Git-push deploys, managed databases, and automatic health monitoring, with zero compute markup and no vendor lock-in.
Ownkube is a developer platform that runs in your own AWS account, with a team of named agents (Cost, Incident, Scaling, Security) handling the recurring ops work. Push code, provision databases, run workers, on infrastructure you own. The agents catch crashes, right-size workloads, and trim spend, so a 5- to 20-person team can ship to production without hiring a $200K DevOps engineer.
No platform team. No vendor lock-in. No compute markup.
Quickstart
Sign up, connect AWS, and ship your first app in under 15 minutes.
How it works
The trust model, control plane / data plane split, and what runs where.
Clusters
Choose between managed EKS (Production) and K3s on one AWS instance (Starter).
Compliance model
SOC 2 and HIPAA scope stays on your AWS account. Keep your BAA with AWS.
The problem Ownkube solves
Most teams face an impossible choice. PaaS simplicity with 3-5x compute markup and vendor lock-in, or raw cloud control that needs a dedicated platform team to ship anything.
Ownkube is the bridge. You get git-push deploys, one-click databases, and automatic health monitoring, all running inside your own AWS VPC on vanilla Kubernetes you can walk away from anytime.
How Ownkube helps: feature by feature
Where every other PaaS asks you to hand over your infrastructure, your compliance posture, and your ability to walk away, Ownkube runs inside the AWS account you already own.
| Capability | Ownkube | Heroku | Render | Railway | Fly.io | Raw AWS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs in your own AWS account (BYOC) | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| SOC 2 audit scope stays on your account | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| HIPAA / BAA signed with AWS directly | ✅ | ⚠️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Data never leaves your infrastructure | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| AWS Activate & startup credits apply | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| No compute markup on AWS resources | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Flat, predictable platform fee | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | n/a |
| Unlimited apps on one cluster | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Disconnect the platform, apps keep running | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | n/a |
| Standard Kubernetes underneath (no lock-in) | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Bring your own Savings Plans / RIs | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Git-push deploys | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Managed PostgreSQL with backups | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Automatic TLS on generated hostnames | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Built-in autoscaling | ✅ | ⚠️ | ✅ | ⚠️ | ⚠️ | ❌ |
| No platform team required | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Every managed PaaS fails the top block on compliance and lock-in. Raw AWS passes that block but fails the bottom on developer experience. Ownkube is the one row ticking both.
Compliance model
How SOC 2, HIPAA, and your BAA with AWS fit Ownkube's trust model.
Full pricing
Rate card, free tier, and cost comparison.
What you can build
Web apps
HTTP services with public hostnames, health checks, and rolling deploys.
Background workers
Long-running consumers, queues, and background processors.
Jobs & cron
One-off tasks and scheduled jobs that run and terminate.
Databases
Managed PostgreSQL with backups and connection pooling.
Environments
Group deployments by stage. Development, staging, production.
Functions
Serverless event handlers triggered by HTTP or a schedule. Beta.
Registries
Connect Amazon ECR or build straight from a GitHub repository. Docker Hub and others coming soon.
Key capabilities
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| Git-push deploys | Connect a repo, pick a tag, Ownkube handles the rollout. |
| Two cluster shapes | Production (managed EKS) for live traffic, Starter (K3s on one AWS instance) for dev and side projects. |
| Environments | Group deployments by stage with color-coded badges and isolation. |
| Managed Postgres | One-click Postgres 17 or 18 with backups and pooling on EKS. |
| Autoscaling | Horizontal scaling on CPU/memory thresholds. |
| Public hostnames | Generated hostname per web deployment with automatic TLS. |
| Rolling updates | Every config change triggers a zero-downtime rollout with health checks. |
| Cost visibility | Month-to-date usage and projected spend, per cluster. |
Ready to start?
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Read the quickstart
Step-by-step from signup to live app.
Have a feature in mind?
Ownkube is shaped by the teams using it. If there's a capability you need, a new registry type, a runtime feature, a framework-specific path, tell us.
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