No competing platform-as-a-service can deploy into AWS GovCloud regions. Render, Railway, Fly.io, and Heroku cannot credibly compete for federal workloads. Your only alternative is self-managed Kubernetes in GovCloud — which requires dedicated DevOps headcount these contracts rarely budget for. Convox is structurally uncontested.
Government contracts demand specific compliance frameworks. Convox Rack deploys into your GovCloud account with VPC isolation, encrypted storage, IAM role separation, and CloudTrail logging — the infrastructure primitives your ATO package requires. Define services in convox.yml and deploy with the same workflow your commercial team already uses.
Your developers don't need to learn a new platform for GovCloud. Run convox rack install targeting your GovCloud account and deploy with convox deploy — identical commands, identical convox.yml, identical CI/CD pipeline. The only difference is the AWS region. Ship the same application to commercial and government environments without maintaining two deployment systems.
GovCloud procurement cycles run 6-18 months. Hiring a platform engineering team to self-manage Kubernetes in GovCloud adds another 6 months of recruiting and onboarding. Convox eliminates that dependency — your existing developers can deploy and operate in GovCloud from day one, cutting months off your timeline to ATO.
Federal contracts carry significantly higher annual contract values than commercial SaaS deals. Convox's pricing is trivial against a $500K+ government contract. The ROI calculation is simple: pay for Convox or pay for 2-3 platform engineers at GovCloud-cleared salaries to self-manage infrastructure.
Every deployment creates an audit trail. VPC-private networking ensures classified workloads never traverse the public internet. IAM roles scope access to exactly what each service needs. Your contracting officer gets the security posture documentation they require, generated from infrastructure you own and control.