News is breaking left, right, and center this week, folks.

, at least, major clouds have major outages. 

 to us to remember to be really, really careful with upstream platform dependencies. And it’s also a reminder of why we’re exiting the public cloud and migrating entirely to 

You Can’t Build a Cloud on Another Cloud

With that said, we have quite a trove of stories to run during an otherwise tumultuous week.

Let’s start peeling these pages off the press!

, we told you the gentle nudges to migrate to 

This week, we’re letting you know that 

 to migrate your workloads to Railway Metal before we migrate them for you. 

You may notice already that non-Metal regions for Southeast Asia and US East have already been deprecated — next up, we’ll be deprecating non-Metal regions for US West and EU West. 

This means that if you still have workloads on our legacy GCP instances, they will shortly be moved for you. If you’d like to avoid this, please move them now. (Thank you!)

If you’d like help migrating to Railway Metal, please 

We’re extremely chuffed about the early returns on 

As a reminder, Bounties is a way for you to get rewarded for answering questions from other Railway users or authoring templates requested by the Railway Community.

This week, we’re excited to open up the bounty 

 system to you, our loyal reader. This means that you can now submit your own bounty request — and if we like your request, we’ll fund it and add it to the community bounty list.

It’s been a while since we’ve talked about 

, but we wanted to let you know about a couple of improvements we made this week. 

It’s now possible to define deployment teardown settings … in code!

, which is the amount of time that a previous deploy will overlap with the newest one being deployed, as well as 

, which is the amount of time between when the previous deploy is sent a 

For more Config as Code capabilities, check out the 

To request more Config as Code capabilities, 

We increased the RAM available to brand new users on the Trial plan to 1GB.

Previously this was limited to 512MB, but that was preventing some templates from running — which was creating a bad experience for template creators and users alike. 

So we bumped the limit — tell your friends! We hope they like it.

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful weekend. 💖

 so that queued items will resolve faster

 credit cards from your account (at last!)

We also want to shout out Railpack contributor 

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Last Call to Migrate to Railway Metal, Community-nominated Bounties, Teardown Services with Config as Code, More RAM for Trials

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