Ravion

Ravion is a cloud infrastructure platform that lets developers, DevOps teams and AI agents provision, deploy and operate applications inside the customer's own AWS account. The product is built around reusable modules: a standard library of production-ready, open source modules covering VPCs, ECS and EC2 services, RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, Lambda and static sites, configured through typed inputs in a dashboard or a YAML file. Teams can also add their own modules or connect existing Terraform. Workflows run through a connected pipeline that includes remote plans and applies, managed state, versioned resource history, drift detection, approval gates and policy checks, followed by builds, deployments, rollbacks and audit history. Infrastructure changes, deployments, failures, logs and metrics are brought together for diagnosis and recovery through a UI, CLI or API.

Supported deployment patterns include containerized web services on ECS with rolling, blue-green, canary or linear rollouts, in-place EC2 updates over SSM, shared load balancers, TLS certificates, pre- and post-deploy hooks, background workers and AI agents, Lambda functions, static sites, databases and caches, and networking, DNS and certificates. Kubernetes support is listed as coming soon. Pipelines execute Terraform and OpenTofu; CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Pulumi, CDK for Terraform, SST and the Serverless Framework are not supported, though existing resources in those tools can be imported into a Ravion module's Terraform state. Standard library modules and pipeline runners are AWS-only today, with native GCP and Azure modules planned; in the interim an AWS pipeline runner can be authenticated with other provider credentials to manage GCP, Azure, Cloudflare, Datadog or any other Terraform provider.

Ravion is the successor to Flightcontrol, the company's earlier developer-focused AWS deployment product, which continues to operate for existing customers with its own dashboard and documentation. Flightcontrol supports JavaScript/Node, Java/Spring Boot, PHP/Laravel, Python/Flask, Ruby on Rails and Docker workloads, with service types for web, private web, network servers, workers, schedulers, Lambda, static sites, S3 buckets, RDS and ElastiCache, plus preview environments, autoscaling, custom domains, SSO, monorepo setups, multi-region deploys and integrations with GitHub, Datadog, Sentry, Docker Hub and Amazon ECR.

Founding story

Brandon Bayer and Mina Abadir independently arrived at the same idea after encountering the trade-off between the developer experience of a PaaS and the full control of raw AWS. Bayer had tried to use native AWS services for an application, found it too difficult, moved to Vercel with a collection of third-party services and accidentally incurred a $6,000 bill. Abadir had used AWS since only S3 and EC2 existed. After meeting and finding a shared vision and values, they joined forces to build a better developer experience on a team's own AWS account.

Business model

The company sells a software platform that orchestrates infrastructure in the customer's own AWS account rather than hosting workloads itself, so customers pay AWS directly at cloud pricing for compute and retain ownership of resources and Terraform state. The company positions high-quality technical support as part of the offering and states it is profitable and sustainable.

Subscription-style access to the platform, with Flightcontrol offered via a free trial; customers pay their cloud provider directly for the underlying AWS resources.

Traction

Flightcontrol has been used by companies ranging from startups to Series H, deploying thousands of times each month. The company describes itself as profitable and sustainable and lists a team size of three. Named customer references include an engineering manager at Ember and a co-founder of CivCore, the latter having switched from Railway. The company states it is backed by venture capital firms and a group of individual investors including Matt Biilmann (Netlify), Thomas Mann (Raycast), Shawn Wang, Zach Holman, David Khourshid (Stately), Nader Dabit, Tyler McGinnis, Brian Douglas, Tejas Kumar, Tracy Lee, Swizec Teller, Randall Kent (Cypress.io), Gabe Greenberg (G2i), John Britton, Doron Sherman and Amir Rustamzadeh.

Latest developments

The company has introduced Ravion as the successor to Flightcontrol, offering Terraform/OpenTofu-based modules and pipelines and an agent-oriented interface, while keeping Flightcontrol running for existing customers pending 1-click migration tooling. Announced roadmap items include Kubernetes deployment support, native GCP and Azure modules and pipeline runners, and support for additional infrastructure-as-code tools.