Today Watasu opens its doors to everyone. No invite codes, no waitlist — create an account, top up your balance, and git push.
Watasu is a modern platform-as-a-service built around a simple promise: you hand it over, we run it. You bring a standard application — Rails, Django, Node, Go, anything that builds with Cloud Native Buildpacks or a Dockerfile — and Watasu takes care of builds, releases, rolling updates, TLS, logs, metrics, and the 3 a.m. pages.
What ships at launch
Everything below is live today, not on a roadmap:
- Push to deploy. A
git pushtriggers a build, a release, and a rolling update, with output streamed back to your terminal. Every app gets a managed*.watasuhost.comendpoint with TLS out of the box. - Managed databases and caches. PostgreSQL, Valkey (Redis-compatible), ClickHouse, Redpanda (Kafka-compatible), and S3-compatible object storage. One command to attach, scoped credentials injected as config vars.
- Observability without setup. Attach the first observability add-on and your app gets its own Grafana, wired to logs, metrics, and traces automatically.
- Multi-DC resilience by default. Scale a process to two or more replicas and Watasu spreads them across two German data centers. No configuration, no extra fee.
- Custom domains with automatic TLS. Point a CNAME, run
watasu domains:wait, done. Certificates are provisioned and renewed for you. - GitHub-native workflows. Auto-deploy from a branch, promote built artifacts between staging and production, and spin up a review app for every pull request.
- Private services and real-time apps. Name a process
*-tcpfor a private TCP endpoint reachable only by apps you explicitly trust, or*-rtcfor a WebRTC-ready process with a dedicated TURN gateway and a public UDP port per replica. - EU-hosted, GDPR-by-default. All workloads run in EU-only data centers. No US data plane, no transatlantic transfers, no surprise compliance work.
Billing you can reason about
Watasu is prepaid. You top up a balance, usage draws it down at per-second granularity, and when the balance runs out your apps pause — they don’t quietly keep running and invoice you for it later. No runaway bills, no surprise invoices at the end of the month. Auto top-up is there when you want the convenience without the open-ended exposure.
No lock-in, on purpose
Your code runs as a standard container image. There is no proprietary build artifact, no platform-specific runtime contract, no SDK to import. The same image runs on Watasu, on your laptop, and anywhere else containers run. We’d rather keep you with a product you like than with an exit you can’t afford.
Get started
Head to dash.watasu.io to create an account, then follow the quickstart — most apps go from repository to running URL in a few minutes.
We’re just getting started, and we’d love to hear what you build. Questions, feedback, or something missing? Write to us at info@watasu.io.