Platform Features
Railway brings an unparalleled developer experience to infrastructure. Want to know if it's right for you? Let's tour the features.
Develop
Every application stack is different, but the building blocks are similar. These are the core primitives behind every app hosted on Railway.
Services
Deploy any container image as a service, just specify the source.
Docker
GitHub repository
Local repository
Databases
Spin-up a custom database or use one of the four default databases.
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
Redis
Volumes
Attach and mount high-performance persistent storage volumes.
Up to 256TB of storage
100,000+ IOPS
Disk usage metrics
Variables
Manage secrets and environment variables across the stack.
Service variables
Shared variables
Reference variables
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Deploy
When it’s time to scale, Railway measures up to the big cloud providers. That means the fastest machines, global regions, and horizontal scaling.
Vertical Scaling
Scale-up CPU and RAM automatically based on workload.
Up to 32 vCPU per service
Up to 32 GB RAM per service
Regions
Deploy your application to any of 4 regions around the world.
United States (East, West)
Europe West
Southeast Asia
Horizontal Scaling
Add machines to keep your critical workloads running under load.
50+ replicas per service
Round robin load balancing
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Network
Railway fabric provides the highest data transfer rates and support for more than just HTTP.
Public Networking
Expose your application to the public Internet.
Up to 10 GBPS of transfer speed
Up to 3 custom domains
Private Networking
Connect colocated services securely with high-speed internal networking.
Up to 100 GBPS of transfer speed
Multiple IPv6 protocols
TCP Proxy
Send traffic to services that don't support HTTP.
L4 and L7 load balancing support
Configurable port
Observe
We've built the best logging experience ever for an infrastructure provider. We think you'll like what you see.
Build / Deploy Logs
Filter, query, inspect, and share build and deployment logs.
Retention up to 90 days
Support for JSON-structured logs
Metrics
Monitor and set alerts for resource usage and performance.
CPU, RAM, disk, and network
Configurable alerts
Webhooks
Get notified via webhooks to Discord, Slack, or custom endpoints.
Slack compatible
Discord compatible
Evolve
Railway has rich lifecycle management and multiplayer capabilities. All changes can be staged, previewed, merged, or rolled back.
Environments
Isolate the entire stack and introduce changes safely.
Unlimited environments
Selective duplication
Sync and stage changes
PR Environments
Create temporary environments that tear down when merged.
Automatic create and delete
GitHub branch deploys
Preview deploys
Rollbacks
Revert any deployment with a single click.
Restore previous successful state
Redeploy or restart
Configurable restart policy
Users collaborating on Railway
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Automate
Railway provides a number of useful tools to extend your infrastructure and eliminate tasks from your todo list.
API
Develop with the same API that powers the Railway console.
100+ methods
Powered by GraphQL
CLI
Orchestrate applications from the command line
25+ commands
Powered by Rust
Config as Code
Manage configuration easily from a TOML or JSON file.
Upstream UI settings
Manage deployments
Cron Job
Schedule jobs to run on a fixed interval.
Atomic to 5 minute intervals
Programmable via crontab expression
Healthcheck Endpoint
Guarantee zero-downtime deployments
Custom configuration
Configurable timeouts
Usage Limits
Set limits to manage resource spend on Railway.
Hard and soft limits
Email alerts
Trusted by startups, scale-ups, and high-growth companies around the world
"Railway is where we host all of our backend services along with our databases. It's been an integral part of our infrastructure since the very beginning."
Paul O'Carroll
Founder & CEO at Arcol
"Even though we already have an internal Kubernetes cluster and infrastructure-as-code setup, we decided to go with Railway so that we weren't spending time writing YAML files when we could be working on the product."
Paul Butler
Founder, Drifting in Space
"Railway is a game changer for us.
We're currently serving more than 80,000 developers with a small team... every minute spent on infrastructure is a minute we're not building the best email product in the world.
If it wasn't for Railway, I don't think we would be able to grow as fast as we are today. "
Zeno Rocha
Founder & CEO at Resend
"The flexibility and ability for automation with Railway helps us move fast and continuously deploy to production with confidence."
Saurabh Bhatia
Engineering Manager at Paloma Group
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