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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.

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.
Everything deploys to your own AWS VPC using vanilla Kubernetes. No proprietary APIs, no custom runtimes. Disconnect anytime and your infrastructure keeps running.
Using AWS Activate or other startup credits? They apply directly — infrastructure runs in your account, not ours.
Run SOC 2 and HIPAA audits against your own cloud account. Maintain your BAA with AWS directly. Your data never leaves your infrastructure.
Intelligent operations detect errors, optimize costs, and tune performance automatically — like having a platform team that never sleeps.

Key capabilities

CapabilityDescription
Git push deploysPush to deploy with zero-downtime rollouts
Preview environmentsFull-stack preview per PR with auto-teardown
Managed databasesOne-click PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL
Auto CI/CDAuto-generated pipelines from your repo
Cost savingsSave 50–70% vs traditional PaaS
Intelligent operationsAutomatic error detection and performance tuning