Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Managed GitHub Actions Runners for AWS
Hey HN! I'm Jacob, one of the founders of Depot (https://depot.dev), a build service for Docker images, and I'm excited to show what we’ve been working on for the past few months: run GitHub Actions jobs in AWS, orchestrated by Depot! Here's a video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX5Z-k1mGc8, and here’s our blog post: https://depot.dev/blog/depot-github-actions-runners. While GitHub Actions is one of the most prevalent CI providers, Actions is slow, for a few reasons: GitHub uses underpowered CPUs, network throughput for cache and the…
Depot provides managed GitHub Actions runners that execute CI jobs in AWS instead of GitHub's infrastructure. The service is designed for development teams using GitHub Actions who want faster builds. It addresses… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 5 we have checked on their own sites, 5 of them free or with a free tier. Managed GitHub Actions Runners for AWS launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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WarpBuildfree tier, from $0.003/mo▲19510x cheaper Github actions in your AWS account
2024 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →
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RunsOnfree tier, from $300/mo▲14210x cheaper GitHub Actions runners, self-hosted on AWS
2024 · runs-on.com · its alternatives →
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BuildJet for GitHub Actionsfree tier, from $0.004/mo▲82Managed high-performance runners for Github Actions
2021 · buildjet.com · its alternatives →
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GitHub Actions▲626Automate your workflow from idea to production
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Blacksmithfree tier, from $0.0025/mo▲105Faster and cheaper hosted GitHub Actions runners
2024 · blacksmith.sh · its alternatives →
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WarpBuild▲14430% faster, 50% cheaper Github actions runners
2023 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’m Surya and I’m excited to show you WarpBuild! WarpBuild provides fast, secure `x86-64` and `arm64` Github actions runners. This speeds up your workloads by 30%, at half the cost, and takes ~2mins to get started. We’ve been seeing pretty good results since we opened up signups a week ago and I’ve shared some numbers publicly here [1]. Currently, we support linux runners for Github organizations (not personal accounts) and MacOS support is coming soon (~Jan). The way the runners work is deceptively simple: Runners are assigned to hardware that is ideal for build workloads with fast…
2023 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, BuildJet makes GitHub Actions faster, by running the workflows on our Gaming CPU cloud. You still get to keep everything GitHub Actions, we simply replace the underlying GitHub Actions runner with our Gaming CPUs. All you do is change 1 line, and get 2x faster and cheaper builds. GitHub Action is very slow - Developers are wasting their time – Waiting for GitHub Actions to give you a green checkbox on PR, is very wasteful and extremely tedious. - GitHub Actions runner hardware is old and slow – GitHub Actions use old and slow machines from Azure. Some of your workflows run on servers…
2023 · buildjet.com · its alternatives →
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Bitrise Build Hubfree tier, from $89/mo▲176GitHub Actions runners that build 2x faster for your agents
27d ago · bitrise.io · its alternatives →
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Greetings! I've created a GitHub action that works that allows GitHub Actions to exchange a GitHub token for AWS Access Credentials. I've cultivated a few examples of it in action: https://github.com/saml-to/aws-assume-role-action-examples I've always found management of AWS Credentials has been a pain. So this setting up this Action works like this: 1) A SAML Identity Provider is created in AWS 2) A Role in AWS is set up to trust that Identity Provider 3) A config file is added to the repository indicating which role can be assumed 4) The GitHub Action exchanges the Repo…
2022 · github.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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Use GitHub Actions to create a Serverless service. - gitfx/ActionServerless
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've created a GitHub Action for running commands on multiple platforms. This includes platforms that GitHub Actions don't natively support. It currently supports FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. OpenBSD can run on x86-64 and ARM64, the other operating systems run on x86-64. Some of the features that are supported include: * Multiple operating system with one single action * Multiple versions of each operating system * Allows to use default shell or Bash shell * Low boot overhead * Fast execution * Runs on both macOS and Linux runners Compared to similar solutions like…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'm continuing to improve my RunsOn tool for launching self-hosted runners for GitHub Action on AWS, this time with support for any GPU-enabled instance type from EC2, and using the official Deep Learning AMIs as the runner image. Much cheaper than the official GitHub Actions runners, and accessible on any GitHub plan.
2024 · runs-on.com · its alternatives →
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Execute any script in a GitHub issue comment. Contribute to nwtgck/actions-comment-run development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A GitHub Action that runs a command in a gVisor sandbox - geomys/sandboxed-step
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Deploy projects to Cloudflare Workers using GitHub Actions
2020 · dash.cloudflare.com · its alternatives →
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Cirroe AI▲237Deploy and debug AWS infrastructure with a single prompt
2024 · cirroe.com · 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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Run GitHub Actions on AWS EC2. Contribute to dimerun/v2 development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’ve been running GitHub Actions workflows for a while, and when GitHub announced the new ubuntu-slim runners as a cheaper alternative to ubuntu-latest, I wanted to migrate—but figuring out which workflows are safe to switch turned out to be surprisingly tedious. You need to check for Docker usage, services, containers, step failures due to missing packages, and whether jobs rely on tools not available in the slim image. So I built gh-slimify, a GitHub CLI extension that automates all of this. It scans your repository, detects which jobs can be migrated, flags incompatible patterns,…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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