Ship like a giant. Stay lean like a startup.

Ownkube is a developer platform that runs in your own AWS account, with a team of named agents (Cost, Incident, Scaling, Security) handling the recurring ops work. Push code, provision databases, run workers, on infrastructure you own. The agents catch crashes, right-size workloads, and trim spend, so a 5- to 20-person team can ship to production without hiring a $200K DevOps engineer.

No platform team. No vendor lock-in. No compute markup.

Quickstart Sign up, connect AWS, and ship your first app in under 15 minutes.

How it works The trust model, control plane / data plane split, and what runs where.

Clusters Choose between managed EKS (Production) and K3s on one AWS instance (Starter).

Compliance model SOC 2 and HIPAA scope stays on your AWS account. Keep your BAA with AWS.

The problem Ownkube solves

Most teams face an impossible choice. PaaS simplicity with 3-5x compute markup and vendor lock-in, or raw cloud control that needs a dedicated platform team to ship anything.

Ownkube is the bridge. You get git-push deploys, one-click databases, and automatic health monitoring, all running inside your own AWS VPC on vanilla Kubernetes you can walk away from anytime.

Zero vendor lock-in

Everything deploys to your own AWS VPC using standard Kubernetes. No proprietary APIs, no custom runtimes. Disconnect Ownkube and your infrastructure keeps running exactly as it was.

Burn AWS credits efficiently

AWS Activate credits expire in 12 to 24 months. Ownkube workloads run in your own AWS account, so credits redeem against every EC2 instance, S3 bucket, and byte of bandwidth before they evaporate. Starter adds zero Ownkube fees on top, so a startup credit can cover 100% of the bill while you stay on one AWS instance.

Compliance on your terms

SOC 2 and HIPAA audit scope stays on your own AWS account. Keep your BAA with AWS directly. Application data never leaves your infrastructure.

No platform team needed

Four named agents share the work. Cost agent right-sizes workloads and auto-sleeps idle envs. Incident agent translates crashes into plain-English root cause hints. Scaling agent adjusts replicas and spot placement ahead of traffic. Security agent flags IAM drift and exposed secrets. Together they cover the recurring ops work a $180K to $250K DevOps engineer would do day to day.

How Ownkube helps: feature by feature

Where every other PaaS asks you to hand over your infrastructure, your compliance posture, and your ability to walk away, Ownkube runs inside the AWS account you already own.

Capability	Ownkube	Heroku	Render	Railway	Fly.io	Raw AWS
Runs in your own AWS account (BYOC)	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
SOC 2 audit scope stays on your account	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
HIPAA / BAA signed with AWS directly	✅	⚠️	❌	❌	❌	✅
Data never leaves your infrastructure	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
AWS Activate & startup credits apply	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
No compute markup on AWS resources	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Flat, predictable platform fee	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	n/a
Unlimited apps on one cluster	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Disconnect the platform, apps keep running	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	n/a
Standard Kubernetes underneath (no lock-in)	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Bring your own Savings Plans / RIs	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Git-push deploys	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Managed PostgreSQL with backups	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Automatic TLS on generated hostnames	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Built-in autoscaling	✅	⚠️	✅	⚠️	⚠️	❌
No platform team required	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌

Every managed PaaS fails the top block on compliance and lock-in. Raw AWS passes that block but fails the bottom on developer experience. Ownkube is the one row ticking both. (Heroku HIPAA support is Enterprise-tier only; Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io autoscaling is partial.)

Compliance model How SOC 2, HIPAA, and your BAA with AWS fit Ownkube's trust model.

Full pricing Rate card, free tier, and cost comparison.

What you can build

Web apps HTTP services with public hostnames, health checks, and rolling deploys.

Background workers Long-running consumers, queues, and background processors.

Jobs & cron One-off tasks and scheduled jobs that run and terminate.

Databases Managed PostgreSQL with backups and connection pooling.

Environments Group deployments by stage. Development, staging, production.

Functions Serverless event handlers triggered by HTTP or a schedule. Beta.

Registries Connect Amazon ECR or build straight from a GitHub repository. Docker Hub and others coming soon.

Key capabilities

Capability	Details
Git-push deploys	Connect a repo, pick a tag, Ownkube handles the rollout.
Two cluster shapes	Production (managed EKS) for live traffic, Starter (K3s on one AWS instance) for dev and side projects.
Environments	Group deployments by stage with color-coded badges and isolation.
Managed Postgres	One-click Postgres 17 or 18 with backups and pooling on EKS.
Autoscaling	Horizontal scaling on CPU/memory thresholds.
Public hostnames	Generated hostname per web deployment with automatic TLS.
Rolling updates	Every config change triggers a zero-downtime rollout with health checks.

Ready to start?

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Ownkube is shaped by the teams using it. If there’s a capability you need, a new registry type, a runtime feature, a framework-specific path, tell us.

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