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24 alternatives to Empire – A Self-Hosted PaaS Built on Docker and Amazon ECS
Empire is a self-hosted platform-as-a-service built on Docker and Amazon ECS that enables developers to deploy and manage applications without maintaining infrastructure directly. It abstracts away container… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Empire – A Self-Hosted PaaS Built on Docker and Amazon ECS launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Empire▲1A self-hosted PaaS built on Docker & Amazon ECS
2015 · engineering.remind.com · its alternatives →
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A reimagined PaaS (Platform as a Service) for all your apps
2020 · digitalocean.com · its alternatives →
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OpenShip▲154Open source PaaS on your server or in the cloud. No lock in.
Aug 2026 · openship.io · its alternatives →
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Spaceship▲344The future of domain, website and digital product management
2023 · spaceship.com · its alternatives →
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A developer-focused app PaaS (platform as a service)
2022 · sevalla.com · its alternatives →
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Hey folks, I'm Ben from Armory.io (YC W17). We just launched Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service (CDaaS) to make it easy for developers to deploy their apps safely to the cloud. We’d greatly appreciate (raw, candid) feedback from the HN community if this solution improves the speed at which you deploy to production. We have a free-forever tier that gives you up to 25 Application Targets[1] (our unit of scale for pricing). Try it here: https://www.armory.io/products/continuous-deployment-as-a-se... Our Story We’ve been helping large companies with CD since 2016 by selling…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Maritime▲98Hi HN, my name is Maria, and I’m a co-founder of Maritime. We started Maritime at MIT to build infrastructure for companies that need to run thousands of isolated AI agents for their customers. Imagine you set up an agent like OpenClaw, or a personal assistant agent with a custom framework, and want to give a separate version of it to every customer/friend. Each customer needs their own agent running in an isolated microVM, with persistent state, secrets, triggers, and sleep/wake behavior. Building such scalable and secure infra will take you months and will cost hundreds of…
Mar 2026 · maritime.sh · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm Alon, and I'm building Alien, an open-source platform for deploying your software into your customer's environment and keeping it fully managed. In my previous startup, I heard the same question from every single enterprise customer over and over again: "My data is sensitive. Can I deploy your product to my own cloud account?" Self-hosting is becoming very popular because it lets users keep their data private, local, and inside their own environment. Unfortunately, self-hosting breaks down when someone starts paying for your software. Especially if it's an enterprise customer.…
Apr 2026 · its alternatives →
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Vantage is a self-service cloud cost platform that gives developers the tools they need to analyze, report on and optimize AWS, Azure, and GCP costs.
2021 · vantage.sh · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We’re Kyle and Jacob and we are excited to show you Depot (https://depot.dev) and get your feedback! Depot is a hosted Docker container build service, providing fully managed remote builds from CI and from your terminal. We support both Intel and Arm builds natively. As application and platform engineers, we have experienced the challenge of keeping Docker container build times fast. From optimizing and reoptimizing Dockerfiles, to implementing layer caching in CI, to running & maintaining custom runners for multi-platform images. Still today, there are limitations with the…
2022 · depot.dev · its alternatives →
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2013 · ark-os.org · its alternatives →
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zero▲94One command to deploy Docker containers to your own server
Apr 2026 · shipzero.sh · its alternatives →
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dyrector.io▲108A self-hosted container management platform
2023 · app.dyrectorio.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · setops.co · its alternatives →
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2011 · weusecarrots.com · its alternatives →
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appfleet▲87Edge compute for containerized services & deploy global apps
2021 · appfleet.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We just launched a new feature we built at Depot that accelerates Docker image builds on your local machine in a team environment, and we wanted to share some of the details with you all. The launch blog post: https://depot.dev/blog/local-builds Depot is a hosted container build service - we run fully managed Intel and Arm remote build machines in AWS, with large instance sizes and SSD cache disks. The machines run BuildKit, the build engine that powers Docker, so generally anything you can `docker build`, you can also `depot build`. Most people use Depot in CI,…
2023 · its alternatives →
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