Your Patient Data Stays in Your AWS Account
Aptible hosts your workloads on their infrastructure — meaning your PHI lives in a vendor's environment. Convox deploys directly into your own AWS account via Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), so you retain full data ownership and custody. For HIPAA audits and customer BAA requirements, that distinction matters enormously.
Predictable Pricing That Doesn't Scale Against You
Aptible's per-container, per-environment pricing compounds fast as your platform grows. Convox charges a flat monthly fee per cluster — no per-dyno taxes, no environment surcharges. Teams migrating from Aptible routinely cut their platform bill in half without sacrificing any compliance capability.
Deploy HIPAA Workloads in Hours, Not Weeks
A single convox.yml file describes your entire application — services, databases, environment variables, and network configuration. Run `convox deploy` and your HIPAA workload is running on encrypted, VPC-isolated AWS infrastructure. No compliance engineering hire required, no six-week onboarding project.
Built for the Compliance Deadline You're Facing Right Now
Whether a customer is requiring a signed BAA, a HIPAA audit is approaching, or patient data is entering production next quarter — Convox is built for teams with a real deadline. BYOC means your BAA stays with AWS, and the BYOC architecture gives your Compliance Officer and Security Lead the data isolation and audit evidence they need to move fast.
AWS-Native Security Controls Out of the Box
Convox provisions your infrastructure with encryption at rest and in transit, private VPC networking, IAM role-based access, and security group isolation — all standard, not add-ons. The architecture your security lead would design by hand is the one Convox deploys automatically, directly into your own AWS account.
No DevOps Headcount Required to Stay Compliant
Aptible's compliance-first positioning assumes you have engineering resources to manage their platform's abstractions. Convox is designed so that a CTO and a Compliance Officer can operate HIPAA-compliant production infrastructure together — without a dedicated DevOps team or compliance engineering staff between them.
