Every application stack is different, but the building blocks are similar. These are the core primitives behind every app hosted on Railway.
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Services
Deploy any container image as a service, just specify the source.
Docker Image
GitHub repository
Local repository
Databases
Spin-up any database, with built-in backups.
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
Redis
Volumes
Attach and mount high-performance persistent storage volumes.
Up to 256TB of storage
100,000+ IOPS
Disk usage metrics
Cron Jobs
Configure a job to run on a fixed schedule.
Atomic to 5-minute intervals
Programmable via crontab expression
Templates
Deploy arbitrarily complex collections of services, databases, etc.
800+ templates
Sharable
Customizable
Variables
Manage secrets and environment variables across the stack.
Service variables
Shared variables
Reference variables
Railway provides automated service discovery, blazing fast networking, and support for any protocol, all out of the box.
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Public Networking
Expose your application to the public internet.
Up to 10 Gbps of transfer speed
Free Railway domain for all services
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 load balancing support
Configurable port
Custom Domains
Use the domain of your choice for your application.
Support for wildcard domains
Unlimited custom domains
X.509 Certificate Management
Managed TLS certificate creation for all domains.
3-click setup
Automatic renewal
HTTP Proxy
Terminates TLS close to your users and protects your app.
L4 and L7 load balancing support
DDoS protections
When it's time to scale, Railway measures up to the big cloud providers. That means the fastest machines, global regions, and horizontal scaling.
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Vertical Scaling
Scale-up CPU and RAM automatically based on workload.
Up to 32 vCPU per service
32+ GB RAM per service
Horizontal Scaling
Add machines to keep your critical workloads running under load.
50+ replicas per service
Round-robin load balancing
Global Scaling
Deploy your application to any of 4 regions around the world.
United States (East, West)
Europe (West)
Southeast Asia
Looks like there's a traffic spike! Monitor your applications confidently with fully configurable observability dashboards.
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Build / Deploy Logs
Filter, query, forward, and share build and deployment logs.
Retention up to 90 days
Support for JSON structured logs
Fully Configurable Dashboards
Monitor and set alerts for resource usage and performance.
CPU, RAM, Disk, Network
Drag-and-drop customization
Webhooks
Get notified via webhooks to Discord or Slack.
Slack compatible
Discord compatible
Healthcheck Endpoint
Customize how Railway determines deployments.
Custom configuration
Configurable timeouts
Usage Limits
Set limits to manage resource spend on Railway.
Hard and soft limits
Email alerts
Configurable Alerts
Get notified when metrics cross a threshold.
Emails, Webhooks, Pages
Low Urgency, High Urgency
Railway has rich lifecycle management and multiplayer capabilities. All changes can be staged, previewed, merged, or rolled back.
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Environments
Isolate the entire stack and introduce changes safely.
Unlimited environments
Selective deployments
Sync and stage changes
PR Environments
Temporary environments that tear down when merged.
Automatic create and delete
GitHub branch deploys
Preview deploys
Rollbacks
Revert a deployment with a single click.
Restore previous successful state
Redeploy or restart
Configurable restart policy
API
Connect 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
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