Ownkube blog: field notes on shipping in your own cloud

Why teams leave Fly.io in 2026 (region coverage, compliance, AWS credits, bill predictability) and what the move to your own AWS account actually looks like for a small team.

How to safely run production workloads on AWS spot instances in 2026. Interruption handling, fallback patterns, realistic savings benchmarks, and the workloads that should never go on spot.

A plain-English 2026 definition of internal developer platforms, the four signals that say your team needs one, and the build-vs-buy framework most growing startups end up using.

A practical comparison of self-hosted PaaS options for small teams who want Heroku-style developer experience without the markup. Setup, scale ceiling, ops burden, and when each one stops fitting.

Heroku's 2026 pricing changes, the per-dyno math at typical small-team scale, and a side-by-side of what the same workload runs at in your own AWS account.

Vercel is great for frontend. For backend services (workers, cron, long-running jobs, GPU, private databases) the fit gets thin fast. A 2026 comparison of where Vercel stops working and the practical alternatives.

A practical guide to AWS Activate for funded startups in 2026. How to qualify, how to apply, the tiers, the expiry traps, and why where you spend the credits matters more than how many you get.

NAT gateway charges are the number one surprise line item on small-startup AWS bills. A 2026 breakdown of why they're so high, the three architectural patterns that cut them, and the one most teams miss.

A clear breakdown of senior DevOps salaries in 2026, the loaded cost to your runway, the lead time to hire, and the smaller-team alternative that's beating the hire for most seed and Series A startups.

Ingress-NGINX reached end of life on March 26, 2026. Here's how to migrate to Gateway API with ingress2gateway 1.0, pick a controller (Traefik, Envoy Gateway, kgateway), and avoid the upload bug that bites WSGI apps.

You need to ship on AWS. You don't have a platform team. Here's the stack that actually works, and the expensive mistakes to skip on the way there.

Render is great early on. But for teams that need real infrastructure control, AWS ownership, and predictable costs, running in your own account is the better long-term path. Here's how to decide.

A direct comparison of EKS and k3s on AWS for small teams who have to ship. Real bills, real failure modes, and the line where k3s stops being enough.

Keep the Heroku workflow (git push, preview envs, managed Postgres) in an AWS account you own. Here's how teams do it and what changes when they do.

Kubernetes events tell you exactly what's going wrong in your cluster, but they vanish after 60 minutes. This guide walks through exporting them to Elasticsearch, Slack, Loki, and 30+ other destinations.