Porter

As we wrap up the year, we're excited to share some updates that enhance security, performance, and developer experience for our users: 🛃 Audit Logs: Porter admin users can now view audit logs for changes made by your team and the Porter team. 📊 Custom Autoscaling: Users can self-serve autoscaling based on custom metrics, like Sidekiq queue length. 🤑 Spot Instances for GCP: Spot instances are now available on GCP. 💵 Persistence for Grafana on AWS: Persistence through RDS storage is available for the Grafana add-on. 💼 GPU Jobs: Users can now schedule jobs on GPU instances. ⏭️ Cl Update: Rebuilding is no longer required if a pre-deploy fails. 🏃♂️ Even Faster Docker Build Times: If using Docker BuildKit, users can achieve an additional 3x improvement in build speeds when using Docker build caching. ⌨️ Resource Configuration Granularity: When configuring resource allocation for applications, input fields can be used in addition to the sliders. 🪺 View Pending Changes: Users can now preview and confirm app config changes before hitting deploy.

Symphony (YC F24) helps enterprises train their customer-facing employees using interactive AI voice simulations of real-world scenarios. Shobhit Srivastava uses Porter for scalable infra without spending time on DevOps.

🦋 Datastores Revamp: When spinning up new RDS databases, users have way more flexibility: more options for resources, storage size, Postgres version, and the ability to choose database and user names. 👭 Aurora Fast Clones for Preview Environments: AWS Aurora Fast Cloning can be used to instantly spin up preview environments with a database that mirrors production data. 🏝️ Non-HA Aurora Clusters: Users can use single-instance Aurora clusters to reduce costs where high availability isn't critical.

Coblocks (YC F24) is a beautifully designed, AI-powered data platform that helps teams build and deploy pipelines fast. Co-founder Nisola Shobayo uses Porter so his team is as fast and productive as possible.

Opslane (YC S24) stitches together relevant context (logs, metrics, traces, code changes, and runbooks) using AI to speed up incident response time for on-call SRE teams. Co-founder Abhishek Ray helped scale infra from ~1M to 20M+ customers at Robinhood and now uses Porter for out-of-the-box scalable infra with a streamlined developer experience.

Justin Rhee, Founder and CEO of Porter and an AWS Global Startup Program partner, shares how Porter’s strategic partnership with AWS has empowered them to co-develop, co-market, and co-sell cutting-edge solutions. Learn how Porter has enhanced its ability to drive innovation, deliver exceptional customer success, and unlock new growth opportunities while improving business outcomes. Watch the full fireside chat: https://go.aws/3YWlp1O

Why does Carry use Porter instead of hiring a full-time DevOps engineer? Later-stage companies generally need full-fledged, in-house DevOps teams to manage the complexity of their infrastructure. But for many startups, dedicating capital and engineering bandwidth to infra management doesn't make sense when their primary focus should be on shipping product. Porter allows startups like Carry to have production-grade infrastructure out of the box with minimal DevOps overhead.

🏦 Cost Explorer Tab (Beta): Users can now visualize AWS compute costs by cluster, app, and service. 🧑🤝🧑 Aurora Fast Cloning: Users can quickly and cost-effectively create a copy-on-write clone of Aurora databases. 👷♀️ Improved Docker Build Times: We’ve added functionality for caching every stage of Docker builds, resulting in up to a >25x improvement in build times. 💸 Cheapest AWS GPU: The least expensive GPU instance available on AWS, the g5g.xlarge instance, is now available via Porter!

How did Govly migrate from GCP to AWS in a day? Normally, to migrate across cloud providers, you'd have to: - Containerize your apps for portability - Write IaC like Terraform to provision infra resources, handle integration, and balance load - Set up a K8s cluster (allowing you to launch, operate, monitor, shut down, and restart containers and nodes) - Install components that handle operations like networking, monitoring, logging, and certificate management in the cluster to be prod-ready - Write helm charts to package and configure applications on K8s Instead of this months-long process, all Govly had to do on Porter was choose AWS as their new cloud provider, provision a new cluster, and deploy their apps.