What's good about...

Cloudways logo 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

Cloudways logo 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 Cloudways Flightcontrol
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:

Service Cloudways Flightcontrol
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

Cloudways
Website www.cloudways.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2012
Data Center Locations --
Example Customers Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko
Flightcontrol
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.