Launch Week 02
PerformancePerformancePerformance

Five feature-packed days filled with new ways to out-perform the competition

Day 01
Railway MetalEgress price cutDisk price cutRailway MetalEgress price cutDisk price cutRailway MetalEgress price cutDisk price cut

Railway Metal is now generally available and it comes with huge cost savings.

44%
Less expensive egress than AWS EC2
50%
Less expensive disk than AWS EFS
42%
Less expensive egress than Microsoft Azure
50%
Less expensive disk than Google Cloud Filestore
From the blog

Railway V3:
Faster and Cheaper

Author
Jake Cooper
CEO

Today we’re launching Railway V3 — Railway Metal — into GA.

Metal is up to 10x more performant and up to 90% cheaper than legacy Railway. So your dollar will go up to 50x farther than it did before.

It's the same Railway you know and love, just faster and cheaper.

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Day 02
RailpackRailpackRailpack

Zero-config application builder that automatically analyzes and turns your code into an image.

38%
Smaller base image when using Node.js
77%
Smaller base image when using Python
62%
Smaller base image when using Bun
44%
Smaller base image when using Laravel
From the blog

Why We're Moving on
From Nix

Author
Jake Runzer
Product Engineer

Today we're excited to release Railpack — the next iteration of the Railway builder.

Railpack has been developed from the ground up based on everything we learned building over 14 million apps with Nixpacks.

Opt-in to using Railpack for your builds today.

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Day 03
RailwayFunctionsRailwayFunctionsRailwayFunctions

Deploy applications instantly with the fastest deployment experience available anywhere.

<8s
from save to deploy
50ms
builds with zero config required
3,432,098+
NPM packages supported
versions of your function code
From the blog

One-Second Deploys?
We Didn't Believe It Either

Author
Jared Lunde
Product Engineer

Today we're introducing Functions, a new kind of service that runs a single TypeScript file using the Bun runtime.

They are ideal for small tasks like handling webhooks, cron jobs, or simple APIs.

And they deploy in seconds.

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Day 4
Railway forFrontendRailway forFrontendRailway forFrontend

Railway isn't just a database provider, or backend platform, or static host. It's all of it, all together, all in one place.

4
Global datacenter regions
33B
Requests served every month
<100ms
Latency across the globe
4.8M
Deploys created per month
From the blog

Speed Isn't Just About Code, It's About
Where That Code Runs

Author
Prosper Otemuyiwa
DevRel Engineer

Today we're talking about how you can now deploy your UI, API, and data side-by-side on the same infra.

No cross-cloud delays, no extra hops, no wasted milliseconds.

Just pure speed and fast apps.

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Day 05
CentralStationCentralStationCentralStation

The all-new beating heart of the Railway community. Now with news, support, feedback, and a roadmap.

From the blog

Introducing
Central Station

Author
Chandrika Khanduri
Support Engineer

A year ago, two roads diverged in a support tool land — build or buy?

Most companies buy. It’s simpler, but the cookie-cutter experience boxes them into brittle, ticket-punching machines.

We don’t see support like that. Our mandate is to figure out what users want and we have to do that at tremendous speed and scale.

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Day 05 - Part 2
$1M forOpen Source$1M forOpen Source$1M forOpen Source

We're giving away $1M in cash for open source developers and maintainers.

From the blog

Announcing $1M
for Open Source

Author
Brody Over
Community Engineer

We're giving away $1,000,000 in cash to open source developers and maintainers!

It's pretty easy to get, too — you just have to publish a template in our library and get other developers to start using it.

For every $1 someone spends deploying your code to Railway, you'll receive $0.50.

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BONUS
And One MoreThing: SSHAnd One MoreThing: SSHAnd One MoreThing: SSH

Our most requested feature has arrived.

From the blog

Ssh, We're Announcing
One More Thing!

Author
David Banys
Product Marketer

We heard you loud and clear -- you want SSH.

So we shipped it for you, especially for Launch Week.

Thanks for your support :)

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