Qovery launched in 2020 with a clear mission: give developers a Heroku-like experience on top of their own AWS account. The French company doesn’t host your infrastructure — instead, it deploys and manages everything inside your existing cloud account, meaning you keep full control of your data and billing relationship with AWS.
The platform works by connecting to your AWS account (Azure and GCP support followed later) and deploying applications using managed Kubernetes clusters. You push code, Qovery builds it, creates containers, and deploys them to EKS clusters provisioned in your account. The underlying infrastructure — load balancers, databases, networking — gets created and managed automatically.
Environment cloning is a core feature. Need a staging environment that mirrors production? Qovery creates one with matching services, databases (including data seeding), and configurations. Preview environments spin up automatically for pull requests, giving each PR its own deployment URL for testing and review.
The platform supports any application that runs in a Docker container, plus native support for common databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis. Managed services use the cloud provider’s native offerings (RDS for databases, ElastiCache for Redis) rather than running them in containers, so you get production-grade reliability.
Qovery targets engineering teams at startups and mid-size companies who’ve outgrown Heroku but aren’t ready to hire a dedicated platform team. The free tier covers individual developers, while team plans add collaboration features, environment management, and priority support. By sitting on top of existing cloud accounts rather than replacing them, Qovery avoids the lock-in concerns that push growing companies away from traditional PaaS providers.
