What's good about...
Cloudways
- Deploy to 65+ datacenter regions across multiple cloud providers
- Built-in cache, database, and CDN integration
- Offers free SSL, staging environments, and automated backups
Flightcontrol
- Your AWS infrastructure is managed by a seasoned devops team at a fraction of the cost
- Excellent documentation and easy-to-use dashboard
- Great developer experience: preview environments, rollbacks, notifications, monitoring
- Deploy close to your users, supports 28 AWS regions
Price comparison
How do Cloudways's prices compare against Flightcontrol?
Example configuration |
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VM Small | $11.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (DO1GB) | -- |
VM Medium | $88.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (DO8GB) | -- |
VM Large | $149.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (DO16GB) | -- |
Managed Redis®* | Included depending on plan | -- |
Free egress allowance | 1 TB - 12 TB / mo included depending on plan | -- |
1 TB of egress beyond allowance | $20.00 $0.02 / GB (DO provider) | -- |
Flightcontrol charges a fixed monthly fee to use their service in addition to the standard AWS usage costs. They claim this model gives you up to 75% lower costs at scale when compared to traditional PaaS offerings.
There are currently 4 plans available:
- Free: limited to 1 user, but commercial use is allowed.
- Starter $49/mo: includes 5 services and multiple users.
- Business $249/mo: includes 10 services, preview environments, RBAC and multi-region.
- Enterprise: custom pricing, SLAs, premium support.
Additional services cost $15-30/mo, depending on the plan.
Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.
Which services do they offer
Here are some managed services that Cloudways and Flightcontrol offer:
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Block Storage | ||
Content Delivery Network (CDN) | ||
Container Registry | -- | |
Load Balancer | -- | |
Managed Containers | ||
Managed MySQL | ||
Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
Managed Redis®* | ||
Object Storage | -- | |
Serverless Cron Jobs | -- | |
Static Sites | -- | |
Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
Company details
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Website | www.cloudways.com | flightcontrol.dev |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2012 | 2021 |
Data Center Locations | -- | -- |
Example Customers | Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko | Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane |
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Website | www.cloudways.com |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2012 |
Data Center Locations | -- |
Example Customers | Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko |
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Website | flightcontrol.dev |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2021 |
Data Center Locations | -- |
Example Customers | Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane |
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Our data for Cloudways was last updated on May 5, 2025, and for Flightcontrol on Oct. 18, 2024.