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Engine Yard contains the entire DevOps lifecycle for Ruby on Rails applications. It offers AWS infrastructure management, 24/7 support, app management, and architecture recommendations to make your life easier.
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Setting up an account and deploying an application in minutes.
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Leveraging Open Source Technologies
We automate the configuration, deployment and management of applications on multiple infrastructures.
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Deploy, Scale and Innovate with Engine Yard
Engine Yard allows you to focus your time on building your app.
  • Network Security: Make sure customers arrive safely and evil-doers stay away. Automatically configure all security groups and firewalls to minimize exposure.
  • Collaboration: Easily configure your Engine Yard account to allow friends and collaborators to work in your environment.
  • Environment Control & Isolation: Keep your production environments separate from your development environments. Easily clone or copy your entire environment for testing purposes.
  • Ongoing Curation & Security Updates: Stay up to date once you deploy your environment. Your Engine Yard Cloud environments receive regular stack updates for both security patches and new functionality.
  • Automated Git Deployment: Deploy your application from a public or private git repo using our Dashboard UI or powerful CLI Tools.
  • Horizontal & Vertical Scaling: Vertically or horizontally scale your application with just a couple of clicks. Enjoy full control over your growth while staying within your means.
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Engine Yard is so much more than just a Ruby on Rails PaaS platform, but don't just take our word for it. Request a free trial of Engine Yard platform today, and one of our engineers will be in contact within one business day to get you going.

Your free trial includes:

  • One or more high CPU medium compute instances for up to 500 hours (in a pre-selected region) or for six (6) calendar months, whichever comes first.
  • Staging, production or custom environments for Ruby applications.
  • A scalable, easy-to-use dashboard to meet the demands of your applications.
  • Automatic snapshots of applications and backups of databases for your protection.

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Ratings & Reviews
3.4
Essential Service for the SMB
July 2018
Executive Sponsor
What do you like best?

Engine Yard takes the worry out of our Ruby on Rails IT support environment. We rely on their expert team to keep our app platform up and running and our customers happy and productive.

What do you dislike?

There is nothing that we can say negatively about our experience with the service.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We are a small, startup and need to focus our resources on driving our business, not supporting infrastructure. Engine Yard allows us to focus on our core.

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Solid offering for cloud hosting management solutions
September 2016
G2 User in Computer Software
What do you like best?

The deployment tools were best of breed when they first arrived, and they continue to have a very solid offering especially with providing support to AWS services.

What do you dislike?

There isn't much to dislike about this service, however there are a number of options in this space now.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Shop around as there are many providers in this space now, but Engine Yard continues to have a very solid offering.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

They were fantastic at helping us get our application to market, and helping us to solve many load, scaling and general teething problems with hosting a technology that was new to us at the time.

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What's New

January 23, 2019

Version stable-v5-3.0.55

  • Updates passenger cookbook to add monitoring support for passenger v5.3.0 upwards due to the output changes
  • Adds "QUEUES" option on DelayedJob recipe, allowing queue-specific jobs to be processed. This fixes a bug where queue-specific delayed jobs were not getting processed. (Update: This is introducing a bug which is reverted in next stack version stable-v5-3.0.56)

January 30, 2019

Version stable-v5-3.0.56

Reverts the following change introduced on stable-v5-3.0.55, as customers without named queues were having issues:

Adds "QUEUES" option on DelayedJob recipe, allowing queue-specific jobs to be processed. This fixes a bug where queue-specific delayed jobs were not getting processed.

February 20, 2019

Version stable-v5-3.0.57

  • Calculate DJ workers on Gen5 EC2 instances (T3, I3, M5, R5, C5). Now delayed_job workers number is dynamically calculated based on instance type and the default number of 2 workers is no longer used.
  • Τune cron recipe adding an option to install cronjobs on app master exclusively
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