Encore Cloud vs Terraform
See why thousands of developers choose Encore Cloud's developer-first cloud platform over other solutions
"We've run Encore in production for over 2 years and it's hard to overstate just how much it's taken off our plates when it comes to provisioning and deploying services and maintaining extremely high uptime. We've reduced time spent on DevOps by 95% — seriously the amount of time we used to spend on Terraform and k8s was stupid."
— Mason Stewart, CTO of Bookshop.org
Time to Market
Encore Cloud
Zero-config setup- Focus on business logic from day one
- Built-in CI/CD pipeline
- Automated infrastructure provisioning in local development and AWS/GCP
- No DevOps expertise required
Terraform
Extended setup time- Infrastructure configuration for each environment
- Infrastructure setup required for each new feature
- No solution for local development
- Manual CI/CD setup
- Requires extensiveDevOps knowledge
Faster iterations
Ship faster with confidence using Encore Cloud
Accelerate your development cycle without compromising on quality. Encore Cloud's integrated workflow helps you move from idea to production rapidly and safely.
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Developer Experience
Encore Cloud
- Framework enforced standardization and security
- Optimized for code generation using Copilot / Cursor
- Automatic service discovery and type-safe APIs
- Production-like local development environment with automatic infrastructure setup
- Automatic API documentation & Service Catalog
- Built-in observability and tracing
- Local environment setup takes 1 command
Terraform
- Complex infrastructure configuration required
- Constant alignment required between developers and DevOps teams
- Manual service discovery and API integration
- Local environment complex to setup and differs from production
- Manual API documentation maintenance
Faster onboarding
Encore Cloud lets you focus on your product, not complexity
Focus on building features instead of wrestling with infrastructure. Encore's developer experience is designed to maximize productivity and quality, while minimizing cognitive overhead and distractions.
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Infrastructure Management
Encore Cloud
- Zero infrastructure configuration required
- Automatic scaling and deployment
- Built-in Preview Environments for every Pull Request
- Automatic least privilege IAM management
- All infra in your own cloud on AWS/GCP
- Full access to config options in AWS/GCP, automatically synced with Encore Cloud
Terraform
- Manual infrastructure setup required for each environment
- Manual IAM and config required for each new resource
- No Preview Environments causes bugs/congestion in staging
- DevOps expertise required to manage infrastructure
Less time on DevOps
No infrastructure management required with Encore Cloud
Dramatically reduce your team's time spent on DevOps. Encore Cloud automatically provisions all infrastructure from local to your cloud on AWS/GCP, including best-practice security and IAM management.
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