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Engine Yard AppCloud is an ideal Platform-as-a-Service for a range of Rails applications, from smaller-scale web applications that run within a single compute instance, to production applications that require the elasticity, scalability and reliability of a Rails Application Cloud. With Engine Yard AppCloud you only pay for what you use—there are no setup or environment fees, and you don't need your own Amazon account. Automated load balancing, and full spectrum monitoring mean that you get the reliability you need, along with essential infrastructure services such as persistent storage, web-based gem installs, data backup/restore, and system monitoring—all backed by legendary Engine Yard Rails support¹ and the battle-tested Engine Yard Ruby on Rails stack.

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Engine Yard AppCloud is the ideal solution for:

Application Developers

Start from scratch and get your first application up and running in less than five minutes. Need to test out new code? Clone your production environment and test your new code on the clone, then terminate the clone once your test is complete. Using application cloning, a 20-server environment can cost less than $4 for an hour-long integration test.

Application Architects

There are no compromises with Engine Yard AppCloud. Design applications with the modules, plugins and packages that you know and trust. Passenger, memcached, Tokyo, Redis, Sphinx and more — they're all right there, ready for use. With our extensible recipe system you can add and automate anything else that you need. And you can always rely on Engine Yard professional consulting services for advice on architecture scaling, with everything from caching to sharding to data architectures.

Application Owners

Worried about application uptime costs or data security? With Engine Yard AppCloud, you only pay for what you use and your support costs scale based on the size of your site. Furthermore, you always get the latest security patches, and it only takes a single click to upgrade your environments with a new patch.

Web Development Firms

Tired of all those non-billable hours for customer handoff that seem to creep into every project? With cloud-based application development and deployment, you can ensure an easy and predictable application handoff. Build your architecture as you go, and always have a customer-handoff ready application stored on Engine Yard AppCloud, ready to be spun up into a live environment. Best of all, when your environment isn't running, you only pay minimal data costs to store your data.

A Powerful Rails Cloud Platform

Managed Application Runtime

Engine Yard AppCloud provides you with a pre-integrated, pre-tested Ruby on Rails technology stack, including web, application and database servers, built-in monitoring and process management, a Rails-optimized linux distribution, in-memory caches and more. All components are monitored for security vulnerabilities and updated continuously as vulnerabilities are discovered and patched.

Application Cloning

With Engine Yard AppCloud, you're no longer forced to maintain a persistent staging environment. With a single click, you can clone your full production environment or shut it down—even if your application is running across twenty different instances with multiple volumes and databases.

Monitoring & Alerting

Engine Yard AppCloud tracks all the essential resource utilization for your application and alerts you when you need additional capacity, or when your latest application push is behaving poorly. Storage, CPU and memory utilization levels are all tracked for conformance to pre-configured thresholds, and email alerts provide timely warnings.

Auto Deploy-From-Source

Engine Yard provides seamless integration with source code management. Simply add a special comment to your source code check-in and you can have it automatically deploy to a staging or test environment. Now your whole team can always see the current application version.

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¹ Support plans for Cloud are optional.