Engine Yard Cloud
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Engine Yard Cloud, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Engine Yard Cloud's own pricing page, checked 4 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| STANDARD | $270 a month | Any number of servers · 12x5 support · Platform infrastructure monitoring · Monthly per instance |
| GOLD | $530 a month | Any number of servers · 24x7 support · Proactive application monitoring · Database support · Monthly per instance |
| PLATINUM | $660 | Minimum 4 servers · 24x7 support · Database administration · Application upgrades · Site reliability and compliance assistance · Monthly per instance; Platinum only available in annual subscriptions |
The facts
Each one read from Engine Yard Cloud's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AWS charges
- The pricing page says instance costs are equivalent to AWS EC2 pricing and gives examples based on 720 hours in US East.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Infrastructure
- Engine Yard Cloud instances are AWS EC2 instances configured with Engine Yard stack components.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Engine Yard documents linking one GitHub account to an Engine Yard account to create applications from its repositories, while noting collaborators then get read access to that account's repositories.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Engine Yard says its customers range from small startups to large enterprise customers.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Product status
- Engine Yard Cloud is the legacy Engine Yard platform that runs on EC2 instances, and the company says it continues to support it.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Engine Yard Cloud automates application configuration, deployment, and management on AWS infrastructure.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Security
- Engine Yard documents per-instance 4096-bit RSA SSH keys, optional two-factor authentication, and rotation of platform AWS connection credentials every 90 days.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Storage and backups
- The service uses persistent EBS volumes for application code and databases and takes regular snapshots that can be restored after rebuilding instances.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Support
- Standard support is 12x5 and Gold and Platinum are 24x7; the pricing page lists a 30-minute response for production system outages on Gold and Platinum.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Supported languages
- Engine Yard says it supports Ruby on Rails, PHP, and Node.js.checked 4 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founding
- Engine Yard's site says the company was founded in 2006.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Company location
- Engine Yard lists its address as 401 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2006checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Austin, Texas, USAchecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Trial
- The pricing page offers a 14-day private-cluster trial with zero platform fees and usage charges, while the FAQ describes a 7-day trial with a $100 AWS credit and says AWS resource charges continue unless the trial is explicitly canceled.checked 4 Oct 2026
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