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Flightcontrol: AWS PaaS

https://www.flightcontrol.dev/
36•handfuloflight•2h ago

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crazycheesu•1h ago
So this is basically a webgui for the aws cli ?
vends•37m ago
Looks like it offers a much higher level of abstraction than that.

Seems closer to Heroku/Vercel but running in your own AWS account.

holografix•1h ago
So it’s a neo-Heroku?
cmdtab•1h ago
I tried flight control but it was a bit buggy and rough. My docker image worked differently on their platform compared to other PAAS.

Lot of issues with slow AWS provision or missing APIs on AWS side so it would take hours to delete resources created by them.

arpinum•1h ago
This could have been some custom cdk constructs. Then at least you can plug in SQS / SNS / DynamoDB / CW / IAM all in one solution. Flightcontrol doesn't seem to offer these.
tuananh•34m ago
i remember deis, it was amazing self-hosted heroku. too bad they were bought by microsoft.

and then there's also flynn.

bilekas•22m ago
> Your team gets bogged down with complex Terraform scripts, manual configuration, and endless CI/CD pipelines.

I really hate marketing speak like this. Terraform is there specifically to solve the Aws infrastructure complexity.you create your system once and minor changes if needed.

> Flightcontrol fully automates infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD, and deployments. All within your own AWS account where you retain full visibility and control

Why does everyone think this is a desirable thing? Excluding adding to your aws price, you're now vendor locked in for your pipelines also.

I'm not seeing any benefits here for any already established company, maybe a small start-up of fresh graduates who don't want to learn Iac/DevOps ?

MrBuddyCasino•14m ago
> Terraform is there specifically to solve the Aws infrastructure complexity.

I don't know if anyone here remembers the Ant build system, but writing your own Terraform spaghetti strongly resembles the days of Ant, before Maven came along. Teams over-engineering their build pipeline, building "platforms" that other teams must use, an unmaintainable and untestable mess. Time better spent elsewhere.

bionsystem•10m ago
Non-ops teams in big corp / public services are often fed up by their own IT (slowness, incompetence) and want to deploy, budget lines for recruiting devops/sysops is sometimes different than software/platform licenses, even if the solution is sub-optimal.

Disclaimer I'm an SRE/sysops and went through a bunch of those projects where sometimes entire department see (often shadow) IT from contractors as the only solution moving forward.

BoorishBears•2m ago
I liked Flightcontrol, found it more reliable and less finicky than Cloud Build + Cloud Run, but it was too expensive for me.

They introduced a cheaper plan since I tried it, but it's missing the main feature that I actually think makes FC worth it (preview environments)

I know not everyone wants to get in on the Vercel Cartel model of excessive free-tier generosity made up for by 1000% markups at scale... but $400/month is tough to swallow when you barely need $50/month of compute to handle your production workload.

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