Today, we are thrilled to announce the public preview of AWS Regions on Koyeb!

During last launch week, we introduced the private preview of AWS Regions. We announced our first region, the famous, us-east-1 (N. Virginia) region, and started onboarding our first users.

What’s new with this public preview? In addition to the us-east-1 location now being available to everyone on the platform, you can now deploy to this region via the control panel and the CLI! Get ready for faster releases and an even better deployment experience.

Want to see another AWS region on the platform? Let us know what you need! We will be adding more regions based on demand.

Why AWS regions on Koyeb?

We repeatedly heard from some of our business users that they needed an easier way to deploy on their AWS infrastructure. A solution where they could benefit from the seamless Koyeb deployment experience while running on their existing AWS infrastructure.

This was the case for Sush, a mobile game with several million users. Here's what Nathan Appere, CTO at Sush, had to say about the new AWS region on Koyeb:

Scaling Sush to several millions of users while maintaining a lean infrastructure has been a real challenge. We started on Heroku, but we lacked flexibility and the costs were unsustainable at scale. As we’re using AWS RDS with high bandwidth, we had to stay on AWS to control our egress costs. Switching to the Koyeb AWS region is a game changer: we have a seamless deployment experience, improved efficiency, and cut costs by 50%!

Get the power of 8+ AWS products without the hassle of manual configuration

AWS offers a wide ecosystem of products and services. Setting up and managing infrastructure on AWS quickly becomes complex and a full time job, even for experienced teams.

• EC2 machines
• Databases
• Gateways
• Load balancers
• VPCs
• Network policies
• Static IPs
• DNS
• Network policies
• Security policies
• Build pipelines
• Continuous deployment pipelines

You name it, AWS has it. And you need to manage it.

This where Koyeb comes in. Koyeb manages these layers, removes complexity, and provides you a seamless deployment experience out-of-the-box.

Deploy on AWS Regions with Koyeb in Minutes

As of today, everyone can deploy in our inaugural AWS region: us-east-1! Deploying in this region is as simple as deploying in our Koyeb regions.

Here’s a quick rundown of how to deploy in the new AWS region using the control panel and the Koyeb CLI.

Via the Control Panel

For new deployments, simply click on the AWS tab above the map of core locations to select the new AWS region in us-east-1. From there, you can select the Instance size with the resources your workload needs.

Via the CLI

As a part of this public preview, you can now deploy in aws-us-east-1 using the Koyeb CLI.

Here’s an example for how to deploy our demo application in AWS us-east-1:

koyeb app init demo-app --docker docker.io/koyeb/demo --ports 3000:http --routes /:3000 --regions aws-us-east-1 --instance-type small

Pricing

AWS regions are more expensive than Koyeb optimized regions. Here are the prices of our Standard Instance types on AWS:

Keep in mind: As bandwidth is more expensive on AWS, we will charge you the real cost.

Reduce Bandwidth Cost & Maximize Performance

In this day and age of cloud, network is more expensive than compute.

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Running on AWS regions on Koyeb eliminates data transfer and bandwidth costs between your Koyeb services and AWS products, giving you the ability to scale faster and more cost-effectively.
All while maximizing performance.

Prototype with Koyeb, Deploy to Production on AWS

Switching between Koyeb and AWS regions is as simple as one click.

With Koyeb, you can deploy your applications and services across our 255+ edge locations and 6 core locations worldwide, so your applications run close to your users and provide them blazing-fast experiences.

If you want to switch your deployment from one of our regions to an AWS region, or vice versa, it's just a matter of changing the region in your deployment configuration. In other words, one click away.

Seamless deployment experience on top of high-performance infrastructure

Whether its on AWS or our own infrastructure, we run the same secured virtualization technology on top of bare metal machines. Having control of the core technology allows us to offer you greater productivity and the best performance.

With AWS Regions on Koyeb, you can seamlessly integrate the Koyeb deployment experience with AWS. Run on top of your existing infrastructure and leverage the entire AWS products portfolio.

What’s next: Join over 100k developers and deploy global applications across 3 continents 🚀

Need a feature on Koyeb? Want to see what we'll be releasing on the platform next? Check out our public roadmap and feature request platform.

If you need some ideas about what to deploy first, check out our tutorials section, our one-click apps catalog, and our collection of deploy guides in our documentation.

To get you started, we provide a Free Tier that lets you deploy your first service and managed database for free. If you want to know more about why we offer a free tier and how we sustain it, read our dedicated blog post about sustaining a free tier.

We are looking forward to seeing what you’ll deploy across our global locations, including AWS us-east-1! 🚀 🌐