It took us ~6 months, 179 calls with users and 3676 commits to ship this release. It is a release where all the changes are 100% driven by community feedback.

Here are the main highlights:

🚀 Drastic performance improvements (benchmarks included)
🔐 Default VPC and private VPC deployment are now supported
🗄 DynamoDB and Elasticsearch support
🏗 Page Builder overhaul - way faster and more stable than before
💻 Improved developer experience
🧱 IaC implementation via Pulumi

Check out the blog post for full details.

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Webiny is proud to announce that we have received funding from Y Combinator and have joined their latest batch of companies.