Railway announced the launch of Railway V3, branded as "Railway Metal," which promises to be faster and more cost-effective than major cloud providers by operating its own data centers. This new iteration is positioned as being almost 50% cheaper than leading cloud providers, offering significant savings on egress, storage, and additional features, with a "pay only for what you use" model. During testing, Railway Metal demonstrated substantial performance improvements, with up to 6x faster multicore benchmarks and a 50x better price-performance ratio in database and stateful workloads. The company emphasizes its commitment to reducing complexity and costs for users, advocating for simplicity over the multitude of tools and configurations typical in cloud services. Railway aims to provide a streamlined experience, allowing users to deploy and scale code with minimal hassle and less infrastructure management, encapsulated in the concept of "infraless."