What is OwnKube?
OwnKube gives you Heroku’s developer experience running on your own cloud account. Deploy apps, databases, and workers instantly — with intelligent operations handling errors and costs from day one. No platform team required.Quickstart
Connect your cloud and deploy in under 5 minutes
How it works
From zero to production in 15 minutes
Features
Deployments, databases, autoscaling, and more
Pricing
Simple, usage-based pricing — no compute markup
The problem OwnKube solves
Most teams face an impossible choice: PaaS simplicity with vendor lock-in and eye-watering bills, or cloud control with crushing complexity that needs a dedicated platform team. OwnKube gives you both — without the trade-offs.Zero vendor lock-in
Zero vendor lock-in
Everything deploys to your own AWS VPC using vanilla Kubernetes. No proprietary APIs, no custom runtimes. Disconnect anytime and your infrastructure keeps running.
Use your cloud credits
Use your cloud credits
Using AWS Activate or other startup credits? They apply directly — infrastructure runs in your account, not ours.
Compliance on your terms
Compliance on your terms
Run SOC 2 and HIPAA audits against your own cloud account. Maintain your BAA with AWS directly. Your data never leaves your infrastructure.
No platform team needed
No platform team needed
Intelligent operations detect errors, optimize costs, and tune performance automatically — like having a platform team that never sleeps.
Key capabilities
| Capability | Description |
|---|---|
| Git push deploys | Push to deploy with zero-downtime rollouts |
| Preview environments | Full-stack preview per PR with auto-teardown |
| Managed databases | One-click PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL |
| Auto CI/CD | Auto-generated pipelines from your repo |
| Cost savings | Save 50–70% vs traditional PaaS |
| Intelligent operations | Automatic error detection and performance tuning |