French startup Qovery has raised a $four million seed funding spherical. The firm integrates immediately along with your git repository and allows you to deploy your code to a public cloud with out having to handle the infrastructure your self.
Qovery isn’t a internet hosting platform. It’s a service that deploys your utility to Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean or Scaleway. Basically, it acts as an abstraction layer so that you just don’t have to consider deployment. It’s a type of Heroku, however for micro-services and trendy cloud infrastructure.
Crane and Speedinvest are main at this time’s funding spherical, with Techstars and varied enterprise angels collaborating, resembling Alexis Le-Quoc (co-founder and CTO at Datadog) and Ott Kaukver (CTO at Checkout.com, previously CTO at Twilio).
The firm’s imaginative and prescient is sort of clear. Developers ought to spend extra time coding and fewer time managing the cloud infrastructure. If you’re utilizing GitHub or GitLab, you may join your repository with Qovery immediately. You then principally authorize Qovery to handle your AWS account for you.
Qovery additionally enables you to create a number of environments. For occasion, chances are you’ll need to separate your manufacturing surroundings out of your staging surroundings.
With at this time’s funding spherical, the corporate will broaden the engineering crew and construct gross sales and advertising and marketing groups. Qovery additionally guarantees that help for Google Cloud Platform is coming actually quickly. It must be dwell by the tip of the yr.
“When building a product on top of a PaaS, developers can bring their products to market faster, but they compromise on flexibility and often outgrow those platforms at some point. With Qovery developers keep full access to the power and flexibility of building on top of IaaS, can deploy into their own cloud infra accounts and all of that is as easy as working with a PaaS platform,” Dominik Tobschall from Speedinvest stated in a press release.
And that is key to understanding Qovery’s distinctive positioning available in the market. Qovery isn’t a platform-as-a-service supplier. You can see your utility in your AWS console immediately. It doesn’t attempt to disguise your cloud infrastructure behind a special product providing.
For occasion, I may think about small startups utilizing Qovery after which shifting to their very own custom-made Terraform cloud configuration. Or corporations may preserve utilizing Qovery because the crew improves the product in the event that they don’t see the wants for one thing else.
