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PaaS alternative

A PaaS alternative when you need your own AWS or Azure account

Vercel, Render, Heroku, Fly, and Railway are excellent until cost, compliance, or architecture push you off. Vylara is the alternative that keeps the guided deploy experience PaaS made you used to, but runs the workloads in your own AWS or Azure subscription.

The signs you’ve outgrown PaaS

  • Your monthly bill is now larger than a part-time DevOps contractor
  • Enterprise prospects are asking for SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA
  • You need a service the PaaS doesn’t support natively (queues, GPU jobs, large Postgres)
  • You’re hitting cold-start, region, or runtime limits
  • You want Reserved Instances or Savings Plans
  • A customer asked you to deploy into their cloud (BYOC)

What you keep when you switch

  • Single-merge deploys. Vylara wires up CI/CD that triggers on merge to main, same as PaaS.
  • Preview environments. Each PR can spin up an ephemeral environment in your account.
  • Repo-grounded config. No console clicking. Docker, CI, and deployment config live in your repo as pull requests.

What you gain

  • Your own subscription, your own bill, your own compliance posture
  • Access to the full AWS or Azure service catalog
  • Delivery config in Git you can fork, edit, or take elsewhere

Per-PaaS migration paths

Try Vylara on your repo

Connect a repo, review your cloud plan in Vylara, merge delivery changes as Git PRs, and deploy into your own AWS or Azure account when you’re ready.

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Frequently asked questions

When should I leave PaaS?
Common triggers: bills crossing a few thousand dollars per month, customers asking for VPC peering or BYOC, compliance audits (SOC 2, HIPAA), needing a database the PaaS doesn't manage, or wanting Reserved Instances and Savings Plans you can't access on PaaS.
What do I lose by leaving PaaS?
The biggest things are preview deployments and the very simple deploy UX. Vylara reproduces both: PR-based preview environments and a deploy experience that's still a single merge.
How long does migration take?
For a typical Next.js or Node app on Vercel/Render: a same-day proof of concept, and one to two weeks to fully cut over including DNS, queues, and storage. The agent proposes the migration as a sequence of Git PRs.
Do I have to commit to one cloud?
No. Vylara supports AWS and Azure today. Cross-provider migration is a supported workflow on the Team and Enterprise plans.