No PaaS competitor in Convox's class can serve AWS GovCloud workloads. Render, Railway, Fly.io, and Heroku are non-starters for federal compliance. That means your only real alternative is self-managed Kubernetes — which requires dedicated DevOps headcount most government-adjacent teams cannot staff or afford.
Convox is a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) platform. It installs directly into your AWS GovCloud account, so your data and workloads never leave your compliance boundary. Your ATO scope stays clean. Your contracting officer stays happy.
Define your application once in a convox.yml file — services, environment, resources — and run `convox deploy` to ship to GovCloud. No custom ingress YAML, no Helm sprawl, no kubectl tribal knowledge. Engineers ship. Compliance leads audit. Everyone moves faster.
When a government contract or RFP requires GovCloud deployment, Convox is the fastest path to a compliant, production-grade environment. Convox provisions infrastructure inside your GovCloud region using AWS-native services — VPCs, ALBs, EKS, RDS — that auditors and ISSOs already know how to assess.
Self-managed Kubernetes in GovCloud demands a senior platform engineer — or a team of them — to build, secure, and maintain the cluster. Convox replaces that headcount with a managed control plane that handles deployments, scaling, log routing, and secrets management out of the box.
GovCloud deals run 6 to 18 months from RFP to contract award. Convox works with your technical team during that window so your environment is proven and documented before the ink dries. Your compliance stakeholders get evidence. Your engineers get a head start.