Your solo ops person is the bottleneck. Fix the tooling, not the headcount.
Your dev team ships faster than one person can deploy. Infrastructure changes queue up, deployments wait on Slack pings, and your ops person is one vacation away from a production freeze. Convox makes every developer self-sufficient on deploys — so your ops person sets guardrails, not gates.
A DevOps hire costs $180K+. Convox costs a fraction.
A mid-level DevOps engineer runs $140K-$180K before equity and benefits, plus 3 months to ramp. Convox absorbs the platform-building work — cluster provisioning, deploy pipelines, environment management, secrets handling — so you invest in tooling instead of headcount.
convox deploy is the entire deployment workflow.
Engineers define services, scaling rules, and health checks in convox.yml. One command builds, pushes, and rolls out to production with SSL, load balancing, and auto-scaling. If your team can write a Dockerfile, they can own production deployments today.
AWS-native without the AWS complexity.
EKS, ALB, RDS, ElastiCache, and IAM policies are a full-time job. Convox provisions and manages all of it inside your AWS account. You get multi-AZ, auto-scaling, zero-downtime deploys, and private networking without the operational surface area that demands a dedicated platform team.
Not Render. Not Heroku. AWS-native depth.
Render and Railway abstract away your cloud entirely — fine until you need a private VPC, custom IAM, or a compliance audit. Convox gives you PaaS simplicity on AWS infrastructure you own. No vendor lock-in, no data residency questions.
The knowledge stops living in one person's head.
When infrastructure is a convox.yml file in your repo, any engineer can deploy, roll back, or debug. Your bus factor drops from 1 to N. If your solo ops person leaves, the deployment pipeline keeps running.
