Stacktape vs. Fly.io

Fly.io and Stacktape both make deployment easier, but take fundamentally different approaches to cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure ownership: Your AWS account vs. Fly.io's platform

The biggest difference is infrastructure ownership. Fly.io runs your applications on their own hardware and infrastructure, while Stacktape deploys directly to your AWS account.

With Stacktape, you get the battle-tested reliability of AWS infrastructure that powers millions of applications worldwide. AWS has proven itself at massive scale with enterprise-grade uptime, security, and global reach that Fly.io's newer infrastructure can't match.

Serverless options beyond containers

Both platforms support containers, but Stacktape also supports AWS Lambda functions for serverless computing. This gives you more deployment options and can be significantly more cost-effective for sporadic workloads.

Lambda functions are perfect for APIs, background jobs, and event-driven applications that don't need to run continuously.

Access to the full AWS ecosystem

Fly.io provides their own set of services (Postgres, Redis, and compute), while Stacktape gives you access to the entire AWS ecosystem. This includes:

• Multiple database options: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB
• Storage solutions: S3 buckets
• Messaging services: SNS, SQS, EventBridge
• Search: ElasticSearch (OpenSearch)
• And 20+ other AWS services

Infrastructure as Code approach

Stacktape is built around Infrastructure as Code principles. Your infrastructure configuration is versioned, reproducible, and can be written in YAML, JSON, or TypeScript.

This approach provides better visibility into your infrastructure, makes it easier to manage multiple environments, and gives you the flexibility to extend or override any configuration.

Proven infrastructure at scale

AWS infrastructure has been battle-tested by companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and countless enterprises for over 15 years. When you deploy with Stacktape, you're building on the same foundation that handles Black Friday traffic spikes and mission-critical applications.

Fly.io, while innovative, is a newer platform that hasn't faced the same scale of testing and enterprise adoption that AWS has proven over decades of operation.