Who is Limenarchis for?
Limenarchis is designed for early-stage software companies that want the speed and simplicity of a PaaS while keeping production infrastructure, data, and controls in their own cloud account.
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limenárchis · λιμενάρχης · lim-en-ahr-kees · Greek for "Harbor Master"
Just as a harbor master commands the port so ships can sail - Limenarchis takes the helm of your Kubernetes infrastructure so your engineers can focus on building, not managing. Production-ready, in your own AWS account, owned by you.
20 min
Setup time
100%
Your AWS account
Zero
Vendor lock-in
Managed K8s Fleet
Node Info
Clusterprod-us-east-1
Nodenode-044
Running
CPU51%
Memory12%
Pods2
Uptime98d 19h
Overview
What Is Limenarchis?
Limenarchis is a bring-your-own-cloud PaaS for startups. It gives teams the benefits of a managed PaaS - deployments, observability, identity, secrets delivery, Kubernetes operations, accelerated computing, and cloud operations - while running infrastructure in the customer's cloud account.
You own the cloud account, data stays with you, and Limenarchis manages the platform layer.
Stage
Early-stage companies
Category
BYOC PaaS
Model
You own it, we manage it
Limenarchis vs Abstracted Cloud Platforms
For teams comparing Render, Heroku, Railway, Vercel, cloud-native tools, or a self-built platform.
| Question | Limenarchis | Typical abstracted platform |
|---|---|---|
| Platform experience | PaaS workflows for CI/CD, deployments, services, observability, identity, secrets, and GPU workloads | PaaS workflows on provider-owned infrastructure |
| Infrastructure owner | Customer | Provider |
| Cloud account | Your AWS account | Provider controlled or abstracted |
| Data location | Stays in your cloud account | Often leaves your cloud boundary |
| Operations model | Managed by Limenarchis | Managed by the platform provider |
| Best fit | Early-stage companies that need PaaS speed with cloud ownership | Teams that prioritize abstraction over cloud control |
When should a startup consider Limenarchis?
Consider Limenarchis when you want managed deployments, CI/CD, observability, identity, secrets delivery, Kubernetes operations, GPU workloads, and cloud operations without giving up ownership of the underlying cloud environment or when data ownership is important to you.
When should I not use Limenarchis?
Limenarchis may not be appropriate for teams that do not want customer-owned cloud infrastructure, do not have data retention concerns, or companies that already have a mature internal platform engineering organization.
What does Limenarchis manage?
Limenarchis manages the platform layer: infrastructure provisioning/scaling, Kubernetes operations, CI/CD pipelines, application deployments, GPU workloads, model hosting, observability, tracing, logging, alerting, identity, secrets delivery, networking, DNS, security controls, and ongoing maintenance.
Which clouds does Limenarchis support?
AWS today. Every resource Limenarchis provisions - networks, clusters, load balancers, DNS, certificates, and CI/CD - lives in your own AWS account.
Does my code leave my account when it builds?
No. Limenarchis CI/CD builds, scans, and deploys inside your AWS account, and images, logs, and run history stay there.
Features
Production Infrastructure, Day One
Kubernetes means "helmsman." Docker means "dockworker." Limenarchis means "harbor master." We're the next chapter in cloud's nautical story - commanding your entire fleet with full visibility.
Managed Kubernetes
Production-ready clusters in your AWS account, with autoscaling, one-click upgrades, monitoring, and maintenance handled for you.
Learn moreBuilt-in CI/CD
Push to build, scan, and deploy - inside your own AWS account. Registries, deploy roles, and cluster access are configured for you.
Learn moreSecurity by Default
End-to-end encryption with SSL at ingress and mTLS inside your network. JWT authentication at the edge.
Learn moreComplete Observability
Built-in APM, tracing, logging, alerting, and dashboards. Deploy with Limenarchis and every service is auto-instrumented - no code changes required.
Learn moreAccelerated Computing
Run GPU workloads for custom models, LLMs, open-weight models, and training jobs with GPU-specific observability.
Learn moreOpen-Weight Model Hosting
Seed open-weight LLMs for hosting, run any open-weight model, and scale GPU capacity from zero when idle.
Learn moreNetworking & DNS
Load balancing, ingress controllers, and DNS management. Everything configured and ready to go.
Learn moreIdentity & Access
Optional identity provider with JWT authentication at the network edge. Unauthenticated traffic never reaches your services.
Learn moreExpert Support
Access to infrastructure and SRE expertise without the full-time hire. We are here when you need us.
Managed Infrastructure
Your AWS Account, Built Out and Kept Current
Networks, clusters, load balancers, DNS, certificates, and identity - each a form in the console, provisioned in your own AWS account and maintained by Limenarchis. The guided setup takes about 20 minutes.
Kubernetes clusters
EKS with service mesh, ingress, autoscaling, and telemetry installed. One-click upgrades, one version at a time.
Networks
Multi-AZ VPCs with public and private subnets, NAT gateways, and default-deny security groups.
Load balancers and TLS
Load balancers that terminate TLS with certificates that validate and renew themselves, then mutual TLS inside the cluster.
DNS
A Route 53 zone per domain, with records written for you as resources are created.
Identity
Optional signup, login, and JWT enforcement at the cluster edge, so unauthenticated traffic never reaches your services.
Access you control
Every action runs through an IAM role you create, on temporary credentials. No long-lived keys.
Observability
Everything You'd Buy an Observability Vendor For
Deploy with Limenarchis and every service is instrumented automatically. The data is stored on your clusters, in your account, and there are no per-user licenses or ingestion bills.
APM
Latency, error rate, and throughput for every service and endpoint.
Traces and service map
Follow one request across services, and see every service-to-service call.
Logs and live tail
Every container log, searchable, tailable, and turnable into metrics.
Alerting
Alerts evaluated on your own cluster, sent to Slack, email, or webhooks.
Dashboards
Save the charts your team relies on and share them across the organization.
One query language
Query metrics, traces, and logs with the same syntax, on one screen.
CI/CD
Write the Pipeline. We Wire the Rest.
Most CI/CD hands you a runner and leaves the hard part to you: registries, IAM roles, Kubernetes RBAC, service accounts, and secrets. Limenarchis CI/CD is already connected to your clusters and clouds - secure, least-privilege, and running entirely in your AWS account.
What you configure
- 1A pipeline file
Stages that test, build, scan, and deploy - committed to your repository.
- 2Where it may deploy
Bind the pipeline to environments like staging or production, with optional approvals and branch rules.
- 3Which secrets it may read
Grant secrets from your own Secrets Manager by alias.
That's it. Commit the file and the next push runs it.
What Limenarchis sets up for you
Image registries
ECR in your CI/CD account and in each target account, ready to push to.
Cloud roles
Separate, scoped publish and deploy roles created for every target - no ARNs or trust policies to write.
Cluster access
Kubernetes access limited to the namespaces a target allows. Namespaces are created on first deploy.
Secret delivery
Values go from Secrets Manager straight to the build. Never copied, never in run history.
Build capacity
A dedicated node pool in your cluster that scales to zero when nothing is running.
Guard rails
Pipeline files cannot widen their own access, and forked pull requests get no secrets or targets.
Accelerated Computing
GPU Workloads, Managed Like the Rest of Your Platform
Limenarchis treats GPUs as first-class cluster resources for model training, LLM inference, custom models, and open-weight model hosting inside your AWS account.
GPU and Model Observability
Accelerator health plus model-serving metrics - latency, queue depth, tokens, and cost per model - in the same observability suite as everything else.
Open-Weight Hosting
Seed open-weight LLMs for hosting or run any open-weight model your team needs to serve.
Scale From Zero
Scale GPU capacity down when idle and back up when workloads need accelerated compute.
Why Us
Stop Choosing Between Bad Options
Most startups face an impossible choice when it comes to infrastructure. All three options burn runway:
Distract Your Engineers
Pull devs off building features to cobble together infrastructure. Get subpar solutions that need rebuilding later.
Vendor Lock-In
Deploy on Heroku/Vercel. Costs explode at scale. Migration becomes a nightmare when you outgrow them.
Expensive Contractors
Hire contractors to build it. Pay premium rates, still no expertise in-house, and they leave with all the knowledge.
The Limenarchis Way
Production infrastructure in YOUR cloud. You own it, your data stays with you, zero vendor lock-in. We bring the expertise and automation. Scale from day one to millions of users on the same platform.
Setup Time~20 min
From forms to production-ready platform
Data Ownership100%
All data stays in your cloud account
Vendor Lock-InZero
Your infrastructure, your ownership
Demo
From Zero to Production in Minutes
See how simple it is to deploy a complete production infrastructure. Bring your cloud account and domain, fill out a few forms, and your fleet is live.
console.limenarchis.com
Provision your network
Spin up a hardened VPC with public and private subnets in a few clicks.
~20 min
To production-ready infrastructure
Your AWS
Bring your own account
Observability & Security
Out of the box
Pricing
Pay Only For What You Use
Simple, transparent pricing based on your actual infrastructure costs. No hidden fees, no surprises.
How it works:
We charge 25% of the AWS infrastructure Limenarchis manages: compute, storage, the Kubernetes control plane, load balancers, NAT gateways, DNS, and encryption keys. The Billing page in the console shows that spend by cloud and by resource type, next to your projected fee.
You get enterprise-grade platform management for a fraction of the cost of hiring SREs.
You get an infrastructure that scales with you, not vendor lock-in with exploding future costs.
You get built-in native observability. No need to burn runway on an expensive monitoring platform with hard to manage costs.
Most Popular
Standard
Perfect for startups and growing companies
25%
of the AWS infrastructure we manage
$1,000 managed infrastructure = $250/mo fee
- Managed Kubernetes clusters
- Built-in CI/CD pipelines
- Complete observability suite
- Alerting and dashboards
- SSL & mTLS encryption
- Networking & DNS management
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Expert support & maintenance
- Platform upgrades included
- Spend and fee visible in the console
- Scale as you grow
Enterprise
For organizations with specific requirements
Custom
tailored pricing
Contact us for pricing
- Everything in Standard
- Custom SLA agreements
- White glove support
- Volume discounts available
- Flexible contract terms
Real-World Cost Comparison
Team of 5 developers + 1 SRE, $1,000/mo of managed AWS infrastructure
New Relic Pro + an SRE
Pay-as-you-go pricing, full platform users
6 full platform users × $418.80$2,512.80
1 SRE to manage infra ($150k/yr)$12,500.00
Monthly Total$15,012.80
Plus additional fees for:
- Data ingestion overages
- Infrastructure setup & management
- Exploding costs as engineering grows
Limenarchis
$1,000 managed infrastructure × 25%$250.00
No per-user licensing$0.00
No hidden fees for data ingestion$0.00
Monthly Total$250.00
Everything included:
- Complete observability suite
- Alerting and dashboards
- Built-in CI/CD
- Managed infrastructure
- Security & encryption
- Expert support
Save $14,762.80/month(98% cost reduction)
Per-user price from New Relic's published usage plan. Both columns exclude the AWS infrastructure itself, which you pay AWS directly either way.
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