Features | Railway

• Deploy
• Network
• Scale
• Monitor
• Evolve
• Secure

Build and deploy

Every application stack is different, but the building blocks are similar. These are the core primitives behind every app hosted on Railway.

Services

Deploy any container image as a service, just specify the source.

• Docker image

• GitHub repository

• Local repository

Databases

Spin-up any database, with built-in backups.

• PostgreSQL

• MySQL

• MongoDB

• Redis

Volumes

Attach and mount high-performance persistent storage volumes.

• Up to 5 TB of storage

• 100,000+ IOPS

• Disk usage metrics

Railway uses

Railpack

or your Dockerfile to build and deploy your code.

Cron jobs

Configure a job to run on a fixed schedule.

• Atomic to 5-minute intervals

• Programmable via crontab expression

Templates

Deploy arbitrarily complex collections of services, databases, etc.

• 2,000+ templates

• Sharable

• Customizable

Variables

Manage secrets and environment variables across the stack.

• Service variables

• Shared variables

• Reference variables

Network and connect

Railway provides automated service discovery, blazing fast networking, and support for any protocol, all out of the box.

Public networking

Expose your application to the public internet.

• Up to 10 Gbps of transfer speed

• Free Railway domain for all services

Private networking

Connect colocated services securely with high-speed internal networking.

• Up to 100 Gbps of transfer speed

• Multiple IPv6 protocols

TCP proxy

Send traffic to services that don't support HTTP.

• L4 load balancing support

• Configurable port

Railway automatically encrypts all traffic from the edge to your applications.

Custom domains

Use the domain of your choice for your application.

• Support for wildcard domains

• Unlimited custom domains

X.509 certificate management

Managed TLS certificate creation for all domains.

• 3-click setup

• Automatic renewal

HTTP proxy

Terminates TLS close to your users and protects your app.

• L4 and L7 load balancing support

• DDoS protections

Scale and grow

When it's time to scale, Railway measures up to the hyperscale cloud providers. That means the fastest machines, global regions, and horizontal scaling.

Vertical scaling

Scale-up CPU and Memory automatically based on workload.

• Up to 48 vCPU per replica

• Up to 48 GB Memory per replica

Horizontal scaling

Add machines to handle more traffic and workloads smoothly.

• Up to 50 replicas per service

• Automatic load balancing

Global scaling

Deploy your application to any of 4 regions around the world.

• United States (East, West)

• Europe (West)

• Southeast Asia

Enterprise class users can configure up to 2,400 vCPU and 2.4 TB Memory per service.

Monitor and observe

Looks like there's a traffic spike! Monitor your applications confidently with fully configurable observability dashboards.

Build / deploy logs

Filter, query, forward, and share build and deployment logs.

• Retention up to 90 days

• Support for JSON structured logs

Configurable dashboards

Monitor and set alerts for resource usage and performance.

• CPU, RAM, disk, network

• Drag-and-drop customization

Webhooks

Get notified via webhooks to Discord or Slack.

• Slack compatible

• Discord compatible

Healthcheck endpoint

Customize how Railway determines deployments.

• Custom configuration

• Configurable timeouts

Usage limits

Set limits to manage resource spend on Railway.

• Hard and soft limits

• Email alerts

Configurable alerts

Get notified when metrics cross a threshold.

• Emails, webhooks, pages

• Low urgency, high urgency

Evolve and collaborate

Railway has rich lifecycle management and multiplayer capabilities. All changes can be staged, previewed, merged, or rolled back.

Environments

Isolate the entire stack and introduce changes safely.

• Unlimited environments

• Selective deployments

• Sync and stage changes

PR environments

Temporary environments that tear down when merged.

• Automatic create and delete

• GitHub branch deploys

• Preview deploys

Rollbacks

Revert a deployment with a single click.

• Restore previous successful state

• Redeploy or restart

• Configurable restart policy

API

Connect with the same API that powers the Railway console.

• 100+ methods

• Powered by GraphQL

CLI

Orchestrate applications from the command line.

• 25+ commands

• Powered by Rust

Config as code

Manage configuration easily from a TOML or JSON file.

• Upstream UI settings

• Manage deployments

Security and compliance

Railway delivers the reliability and compliance you need, with the experience your developers deserve.

SSO

Single sign-on authentication for seamless team access.

• SAML authentication

• Team management

Audit logs

Track all changes and user actions with comprehensive audit logs.

• User activity tracking

• Event history

Bring your own cloud

Deploy Railway within your existing security-hardened cloud environment.

• Deploy in your VPC

• Use cloud credits

Zero-trust networking

Secure private networking with zero-trust principles.

• Encrypted connections

• No manual firewall configuration

Support SLOs

Exceptional support for reliable uptime and performance.

• 24/7 support

• Contractual SLAs

Dedicated VMs

Isolated cloud burst resources in any public cloud region.

• Resource isolation

• Dedicated hosts

Enterprise tier unlocks

SSO, audit logs, BYOC, and dedicated VMs.

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