Flightcontrol is a Y Combinator-backed PaaS that automates AWS deployments. Free for solo use, or from $97/month for teams. See plans and key features.
Flightcontrol is a platform-as-a-service founded in 2021 by Mina Abadir and Brandon Bayer, and backed by Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, operated under the company name Blitz Revolution Inc. It targets teams that want the simplicity of a managed PaaS like Heroku but don't want to give up direct ownership of their AWS account or accept the cost markups that typically come with fully managed platforms.
Instead of hosting customer workloads on its own infrastructure, Flightcontrol provisions and manages resources like EC2 servers, Lambda functions, RDS databases, and Redis instances directly inside the customer's connected AWS account, while providing the deployment automation and dashboard experience of a traditional PaaS on top.
Deployments are triggered by a git push or webhook, and Flightcontrol can spin up ephemeral preview environments automatically for pull requests, which is useful for reviewing feature branches before merging. Builds are handled through Nixpacks, letting most applications deploy without a hand-written Dockerfile.
The platform supports deployment across 28 AWS regions, with multi-region deployment support in early access, and gives teams cost visibility by breaking down AWS spend by project, environment, and service rather than leaving that buried in a single AWS bill. Higher tiers add role-based access control and 24/7 emergency support with a stated median response time of six minutes.
Flightcontrol's Free plan supports a single user with unlimited projects, environments, and deployments, plus community support, and explicitly allows commercial use. The Starter plan is $97/month, includes five services and support for GitHub organizations with up to 25 users, with additional services billed at roughly $20-30 each per month.
The Business plan is $397/month, includes 10 services and up to 100 users, and adds preview environments, custom domains, role-based access control, multi-region deployment, Slack notifications, and 24/7 emergency support. An Enterprise tier adds SAML SSO, SCIM directory sync, SOC 2 Type II compliance, and a dedicated account manager, priced on request. In every case, the underlying AWS infrastructure costs are billed separately by AWS.
Yes, Flightcontrol has a free plan for a single user with unlimited projects, environments, and deployments, and it explicitly allows commercial use.
No, Flightcontrol provisions and manages infrastructure like servers, databases, and Lambda functions directly inside your own connected AWS account rather than hosting it on shared infrastructure.
Yes, Flightcontrol's plan pricing covers the platform itself; the underlying AWS infrastructure costs (EC2, RDS, etc.) are billed to you directly by AWS.
Flightcontrol was founded in 2021 by Mina Abadir and Brandon Bayer, and went through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch.
Yes, it can automatically create ephemeral preview environments for pull requests on the Business plan and above.