One ops person shouldn't be a single point of failure
When your ops person is on vacation, sick, or eyeing the exit, your deployment pipeline shouldn't freeze. Convox abstracts EKS, ALB, RDS, and IAM into a single `convox.yml` so any engineer on your team can deploy, roll back, or scale a service without a Slack ping to ops. The knowledge stops living in one person's head.
This is not a DevOps hire. It's the alternative to one.
A mid-level DevOps engineer costs $140K–$180K per year before equity and benefits. Convox replaces the platform-building portion of that role — cluster provisioning, deploy pipelines, environment management, secrets handling — for a fraction of the cost. You're not cutting corners; you're buying back the time your team was spending on undifferentiated infrastructure work.
Your infrastructure stays in your AWS account. Always.
Convox's Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) model means every resource — EKS clusters, VPCs, load balancers, RDS instances — lives in your AWS account, not ours. Your security posture, your cost visibility, your compliance scope. When an auditor asks where your data lives, the answer is still 'our AWS account,' full stop.
`convox deploy` is the entire deployment workflow
No YAML sprawl. No Helm charts. No kubectl. Engineers define services, environment variables, health checks, and scaling rules in a single `convox.yml`, then run `convox deploy`. Convox handles the rest — image builds, task definitions, rolling deployments, and rollback on failure. If your team can write a Dockerfile, they can own production deployments today.
Kubernetes complexity without the Kubernetes headcount requirement
Self-managed k8s on EKS requires someone who can reason about node groups, ingress controllers, cert-manager, cluster autoscaler, and a dozen other moving parts — full time. Convox gives you the same deployment guarantees (multi-AZ, auto-scaling, zero-downtime deploys, private networking) on top of EKS without the operational surface area that demands a dedicated platform team to maintain it.
Not Render. Not Heroku. AWS-native depth without AWS-native pain.
Render and Railway abstract away cloud infrastructure entirely — which is fine until you need a private VPC, custom IAM policies, RDS in your own account, or a compliance audit that requires cloud-native controls. Convox gives your team the simplicity of a PaaS deploy experience with the infrastructure depth of a cloud-native setup, because it's literally running in your AWS account from day one.
