Introduction
Galleon is a web platform that deploys your applications to your own AWS account. You get the simplicity of a managed platform with the economics and control of owning your infrastructure.
Connect your GitHub repo, connect your AWS account, and Galleon handles the rest -- framework detection, Terraform generation, CI/CD pipelines, and AI-powered failure analysis. No CLI to install. No YAML to write. No infrastructure expertise required.
Why Galleon?
I've built multiple SaaS startups. I even took one to acquisition. I remember the world before cloud, as a kid spinning up servers so I could play CS:Source with my friends. I know how far we've come. However the sprawling infrastructure choices at AWS, Google Cloud and Azure have created an entire sub-industry of people who have to memorise services and stick them together to make our applications work. DevOps.
These are the challenges I kept seeing:
- Surprise costs -- You don't know how much a change will cost until it's deployed
- Risky deployments -- When things break, you're on your own debugging infrastructure
- Context switching -- Jumping between tools to understand impact
- Architecture rabbit holes -- Knowing what service to use with another service becomes endless googling and LLM querying
This is a cost that large enterprises bizarrely willingly accept. But when you are a lean, technical team just trying to get your product out there and validate it, this is just annoying. First you need to figure out the best services, then muck around with a subpar console or find a framework that lets you do it with YAML, but there is always some workaround needed. After all that you are never really sure what its going to cost you to run.
The alternative is to use one of the many PaaS offerings like Vercel. I've used these services a lot and the developer experience is good. Really good. But I kept coming back to the same problem. As soon as my product got out of the MVP phase, the bills become eye-watering and I can't use my AWS Activate credits or free tier services effectively. These PaaS offerings seem like the wrong solution. We don't need PaaS. We just need a service that directly deploys on AWS the way it's meant to be used without needing an expert to figure it out for us.
That's what Galleon is. It connects to your GitHub repo, scans your code, applies a best-in-class infrastructure setup and gets it live by stitching together the right AWS services. No vendor lock-in. No infrastructure expertise required.
What is Galleon?
Galleon sits between your code and your AWS account. When you push to main, Galleon:
- Detects your framework (Next.js, FastAPI, Django, Express, React, and more)
- Generates production-ready Terraform and a GitHub Actions CI/CD workflow
- Deploys to your AWS account using your own GitHub Actions runners
- Monitors the deployment and auto-analyzes failures if anything goes wrong
Your infrastructure runs entirely in your AWS account. If you ever stop using Galleon, your apps keep running. There is no vendor lock-in.
How It Works
- Sign up at app.galleonhq.com -- Authenticate with GitHub. No credit card required.
- Connect your AWS account -- One-click CloudFormation setup creates a secure cross-account IAM role. Your credentials never leave AWS.
- Connect a GitHub repository -- Galleon scans your repo and detects your stack automatically.
- Deploy -- Choose an infrastructure tier, click Deploy, and watch live logs as your app goes live.
After the first deploy, every push to your main branch triggers a redeployment automatically via GitHub Actions.
What Gets Deployed
Galleon generates the right AWS architecture for your application. Choose from four infrastructure tiers based on your traffic and budget:
| Tier | Estimated AWS Cost | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Serverless | $1--20/mo | Low-traffic apps, side projects, Next.js sites |
| Starter | $10--40/mo | Small production apps, APIs, early-stage products |
| Growth | $80--180/mo | Production workloads with moderate traffic |
| Scale | $200--500/mo | High-traffic applications, teams with SLAs |
Resources are provisioned based on your framework and tier -- ECS Fargate or Lambda, Application Load Balancers, CloudFront distributions, ECR repositories, CloudWatch logging, and more. Everything is visible in your AWS console.
Monorepo Support
Galleon detects multiple applications within a single repository. Each app gets its own independent deployment configuration and infrastructure.
Self-Healing
When a deployment fails, Galleon does not just report the error. It:
- Streams live logs from the GitHub Actions run
- Analyzes the failure using AI to identify the root cause
- Opens a fix PR on your repository with the suggested changes
This happens automatically. You can review the PR, merge it, and the next deployment picks up the fix.
Pricing
Galleon charges a flat monthly fee. No per-seat pricing, no build minute charges, no bandwidth overages.
- 14-day free trial -- Starts when you trigger your first deploy, not when you sign up. No credit card required.
- Pro -- $99/month. Unlimited apps, unlimited deploys, unlimited team members.
- Founding Member -- $49/month, locked in permanently. Available to early customers.
Your AWS infrastructure costs are separate and paid directly to AWS. Galleon never marks up your cloud spend. If you have AWS credits from YC, Techstars, or AWS Activate, they cover your infrastructure costs.