Paris and San Francisco, 3rd April 2024 - Platform.sh, a major Platform-as-a-Service player, today announced the launch of Upsun, its new offering designed to provide startups and digital teams within larger groups who adopt the code and agile methods belonging to startups with a self-service, highly flexible, and scalable platform. The aim is to simplify the application lifecycle— from development to deployment and iteration—by providing development teams with the tooling to describe and flexibly compose the infrastructure, optimize code, efficiently use resources, and easily resolve issues.

From the outset, startups face various challenges, from designing their products and recruiting talent to managing their finances. Time and resource constraints can hamper their growth and their ability to scale and innovate. Today, where efficiency is paramount, is the perfect time for startups to consider leveraging Upsun and enable their development teams to focus on building features and improving their business—rather than spending considerable time managing engineering platforms and cloud infrastructures. 

With Upsun, startups can grow and implement a large variety of cloud projects. Upsun is a good fit for decoupled architecture, headless projects and data or AI-rich applications.

"For seven months, we've had the opportunity to beta-test Upsun and have been blown away by how easy it is to use, given the complexity it can handle. The platform provides the perfect tools for start-ups like Witty Works, a platform to meet the resource demands of custom code, microservices, and AI-rich projects. We have been able to improve our performance and automate the deployment of our applications without the need to recruit a dedicated DevOps team. This flexibility has enabled us to concentrate our resources on our core technology," said Lukas Kahwe Smith, co-founder and CTO of Witty Works, a Zurich based startup delivering an application improving inclusive language within diverse companies.

Upsun is committed to supporting its customers' efforts to reduce their carbon footprints. Through this new offer, Platform.sh is providing a 3% discount on resource usage when deploying to a low-carbon region. The company is currently offering this incentive in five regions (France, Sweden, Canada, the United States and Switzerland), enabling it to respond effectively to the needs of startups in terms of sustainability, data localization, and compliance.

Only pay for the resources you use 

Upsun's pricing model is transparent, flexible and consumption-based. This approach enables startups to pay only for what they use and scale step-by-step while managing their budgets more effectively.

Platform.sh is supporting the growth and acceleration of startups with a special promotional offer when they adopt Upsun. With a 50% discount on their first year contract, this initiative aims to make startup adoption more accessible. The offer is reserved exclusively for Upsun subscribers and is subject to specific eligibility criteria.

"The launch of Upsun marks a new era in our commitment to innovation, durability, and growth for startups. We are convinced that this new offering will provide them with the resources they need to expand and prosper in an ever-changing environment," says Fred Plais, CEO and co-founder of Platform.sh. 

Beyond startups, Upsun is designed for any organization with an innovative application project that requires development teams to quickly build, deploy, and scale their applications.

Upsun is live and available now—to bring your new project to Upsun see more details here.

About Platform.sh

Platform.sh is a leading cloud-based web application hosting platform for managing fleets of websites and web applications. Its innovative continuous deployment solution enables teams in charge of ecommerce sites, media sites and innovative, high-traffic applications to focus their efforts on developing and improving their applications without having to worry about infrastructure issues (e.g., scalability, continuous deployment, maintenance, security, 24/24 monitoring). Platform.sh is available in Europe, the United States, and Asia via global partnerships with AWS, Google, Azure, Orange and OVHcloud.

The company, a winner of the European Commission's H2020 programme, recently included in the FT1000 list of Europe's fastest-growing companies, a member of the French Tech 120 and Gaia-X, and certified 'Great Place to Work', is headquartered in Paris (France) and San Francisco. Its clients include prestigious brands such as Adobe Magento, Gap, Nestlé, Orange, The British Council, The Financial Times and Unicef.

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