Does Railway have BYOC?

Railway is a managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that operates on its own infrastructure, known as Railway Metal, across all its plans but does not offer a true Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) option. BYOC is mentioned as a feature under Railway's Enterprise plan but is essentially a compliance tier add-on rather than a standalone product with its own architecture or data plane documentation. In contrast, Northflank provides BYOC as a first-class, self-serve product that allows customers to deploy into their own cloud accounts across multiple providers like AWS, GCP, Azure, and more. Northflank's BYOC setup ensures that the control plane does not access workload data or secrets, keeping everything within the customer's cloud boundary, and supports extensive functionality like Kubernetes cluster provisioning and bare-metal deployments. This makes Northflank a suitable choice for teams with specific compliance, data residency, and cloud spend requirements, offering the ability to host workloads in their own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environments, thus providing a more flexible and documented BYOC solution compared to Railway.

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