The Infrastructure Gap
Cursor helps developers write features in minutes...
But they still manually set up local infrastructure, write Terraform/Pulumi/CDK, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
Most engineering time is now spent on DevOps & Infrastructure
What if you could automate infrastructure too?
Cursor + Encore =
Automated Code + Infrastructure in One Workflow
- ✓ Local infrastructure
- ✓ Preview environment per PR
- ✓ Production infrastructure (AWS/GCP)
Unlock the potential of Cursor with Encore
Self-Service Infrastructure with Guardrails
For Developers
- ✓Zero local infrastructure setup — databases, queues, and services run automatically
- ✓Test against real cloud infrastructure in isolated preview environments that spin up in 1 minute
- ✓No DevOps tickets for prod infrastructure, each PR automatically creates a provisioning request for DevOps approval
For DevOps
- ✓Developers self-serve with guardrails built-in
- ✓Automated infrastrucutre provisioning in your AWS/GCP (SOC 2 compliant)
- ✓Skip the YAML — no Terraform, Kubernetes configs, or Docker Compose
- ✓Complete audit trail with every change documented
From Prompt to Deployed Infrastructure
in 3 Steps
Use Cursor to write code and define the infrastructure
Use Cursor as you normally would, describing what to build including the infrastructure primitives you want to use. For example:Add image upload with background resizing and S3 storage. Use Pub/Sub for keeping track of background tasks.
Encore sets up the local infrastructure automatically
Encore's parser analyzes the code and creates a graph of the infrastructure requirements, then sets it up automatically for local development.
Review & Deploy to Production
Create a PR and Encore Cloud creates a dedicated preview environment for end-to-end testing. Merge and DevOps gets an approval request for any infrastructure changes, approved changes are automatically provisioned in your AWS/GCP environment.
Dramatic Time Savings
- ✗Slow iterations
- ✗Manual local infrastructure setup
- ✗Back and forth with DevOps team
- ✗Writing Terraform or YAML
- ✗Repeat for each environment (testing, staging, prod)
- ✓Fast iterations
- ✓Automatic local infrastructure
- ✓Simple testing in preview environments
- ✓PRs document infrastructure changes with full context
- ✓DevOps approves and infrastructure is automatically provisioned in your cloud
"We've seen a 3x increase in development speed and 90% shorter project lead times."
— Josef Sima, Engineering Director at Groupon
Works with your existing stack
No need for a big rewrite
Start small by using Encore for developing new services to unlock immediate benefits, then migrate at your own pace.
"Encore is our foundation for all new development. Adopting it took less than a sprint, and we've seen a 3x increase in development speed and 90% shorter project lead times. Time spent setting up new infra has gone from weeks to minutes."
"I've always been striving for a developer platform where developers can self-serve secured infrastructure. Encore is exactly what I was trying to build myself, but years ahead, and I don't have to maintain any of it."
"We've run Encore in production for over 2 years and we've reduced time spent on DevOps by 95%. As we migrate more services to Encore, we're on track to save over $60k annually on cloud costs compared to our old Rails monolith."
