The Infrastructure Behind Strapi Cloud: Serverless, High-Performance, Built on Koyeb

Strapi Cloud delivers fully-managed, cloud-hosted instances of Strapi in minutes. With thousands of projects deploying every day, the team needed high-performance infrastructure to provide a seamless, production-ready experience. Strapi wanted to focus on innovation and improving Strapi, not managing infrastructure. In just weeks, Strapi Cloud moved to Koyeb, gaining a serverless, multi-tenant cloud offering with zero operational overhead. With Koyeb's serverless infrastructure, Strapi deploys at scale and sustains their forever-free tier effortlessly.

About Strapi: The Leading Open Source Headless CMS

Strapi is an open-source, Node.js–based headless CMS built to make creating content-rich digital experiences fast, flexible, and developer-friendly. Its balance of flexibility and performance has made it a go-to choice for teams who want the freedom of a custom backend without the overhead of building one from scratch.

Alongside its open source CMS, Strapi Cloud provides a fully-managed cloud offering that lets teams deploy Strapi in production without managing the underlying infrastructure.

The Challenge: Optimizing and Scaling Strapi Cloud for Performance and Cost-Efficiency

Earlier this year, the team behind Strapi set out to make Strapi Cloud faster, more reliable, and more efficient to support their growing user base. With thousands of developers deploying projects every day, the platform needed infrastructure that could support both their production workloads and generous free tier. The requirements were clear:

• High-performance serverless infrastructure to deliver fast, reliable Strapi instances for users worldwide
• Multi-region support to keep latency low for users located around the globe
• Support thousands of deployments per day, with the speed and reliability users expect
• Zero infrastructure management, so the Strapi team could move quickly and focus on product innovation, not dealing with the underlying infrastructure
• Automatic scale-to-zero to keep costs sustainable for smaller projects running on the free tier

This combination of performance, efficiency, and operational simplicity was essential to delivering a seamless, fully-managed cloud experience. Strapi needed an infrastructure partner capable of meeting all these requirements. That’s when Strapi turned to Koyeb.

The Solution: Why Koyeb

Strapi evaluated a bunch of cloud service providers. In the end, Koyeb stood out because it offered the best combination of performance, features, and cost efficiency.

With Koyeb, Strapi Cloud can:

• Manage a massive multi-tenant fleet securely and efficiently, running thousands of projects daily
• Spawn end-to-end Strapi Cloud instances in seconds, delivering a fast, reliable experience for users
• Build with zero ops, letting the Strapi team focus on innovating rather than infrastructure management
• Sustain a forever-free tier with cost-efficient scaling, native scale-to-zero capabilities, and fast cold starts

By partnering with Koyeb, Strapi gained a high-performance, fully-managed infrastructure solution capable of orchestrating multi-tenant workloads at scale all while delivering speed, reliability, and a frictionless developer experience to their users worldwide.

Our free tier is a key part of Strapi’s strategy, but scaling it reliably at this size is challenging. Koyeb gives us the performance, speed, and scale-to-zero capabilities we need to keep it sustainable and frictionless for users.

Managing a Massive Global Multi-Tenant Fleet

Strapi Cloud powers thousands of fully managed Strapi instances every day for developers and teams around the world. Each deployment is unique, serving different traffic patterns. To deliver a consistent and reliable experience, Strapi Cloud must handle multi-tenant workloads securely, at scale, and with fast performance.

By running on Koyeb, Strapi Cloud leverages serverless, globally-distributed infrastructure that automatically orchestrates every deployment. Each instance runs in isolated environments, ensuring that one user's workload never impacts another. Deployments scale automatically and idle resources scale to zero, keeping costs efficient.

With multiple regions available worldwide, Strapi Cloud instances are deployed close to end users, minimizing latency and improving responsiveness. Combined with Koyeb’s high-performance orchestration, this setup allows Strapi Cloud to operate a massive multi-tenant fleet effortlessly, providing secure, fast, and reliable access to every user, everywhere.

Running Strapi Cloud on Koyeb lets our team stay focused on building the product, while the platform reliably handles thousands of deployments every day.

Deploying Strapi Cloud Instances in Seconds with Zero Infrastructure Management

Running Strapi Cloud on Koyeb eliminates operational overhead for the Strapi team. All infrastructure management: provisioning, networking, orchestration, and scaling are handled automatically by the Koyeb platform.

For Strapi Cloud users, this means new production-grade Strapi instances spawn in minutes. Behind the scenes, Koyeb powers each deployment with reliable, high-performance infrastructure that scales automatically based on demand.

With the underlying infrastructure taken care of, the Strapi team can focus on building features and improving Strapi.

Sustaining Strapi Cloud’s Free Tier

Strapi is committed to providing a forever free tier that lets users prototype, test, and deploy hobby projects with the same high-quality performance as paid tiers.

Sustaining this free tier is a critical part of staying competitive, supporting developers at every stage, and introducing new users to Strapi and Strapi Cloud.

With Koyeb, Strapi can ensure that free-tier projects run reliably and securely, without compromising performance for other users. Native scale-to-zero automatically frees up resources when projects are idle, optimizing compute usage and keeping costs sustainable.

This approach allows Strapi to offer a forever-free tier, giving users a frictionless way to explore Strapi Cloud, while the platform continues to deliver a fast, consistent experience at any scale.

Migrating Strapi Cloud

With Koyeb’s API, the Strapi engineering team was able to migrate Strapi Cloud to Koyeb with minimal friction. The Koyeb API provides programmatic control over deployments, scaling, and orchestration, allowing the Strapi team to automate processes, integrate with existing workflows, and get Strapi Cloud running on Koyeb’s high-performance infrastructure.

With the migration done, Strapi is able to take full advantage of the benefits of Koyeb's serverless performance - multi-tenant isolation and scale-to-zero efficiency across its cloud offering.

Koyeb Features in Action

Performance, Scale & Security

• High-performance serverless infrastructure
• Autoscaling based on traffic
• Scale-To-Zero for sustaining Strapi Cloud free tier
• Fleet management & automatic orchestration, deployment, and scaling
• Secure isolation for a multi-tenant cloud offering

Developer Experience

• Zero infrastructure management means no-ops or overhead for the Strapi team
• Fast deployment & CI/CD integration
• Global regions to run Strapi close to users and improve latency
• Manage custom domains with ease
• Koyeb API for programmatic control over Koyeb resources

Ready for Effortless Fleet Management of Multi-Tenant Workloads? 🚢

With Koyeb, you can deploy, scale, and manage thousands of projects or applications effortlessly, just like Strapi Cloud. Enjoy high-performance serverless infrastructure, secure multi-tenant isolation, and zero operations overhead, while keeping costs optimized with scale-to-zero capabilities.

Start building today and experience frictionless deployment, seamless scaling, and fully managed infrastructure at https://app.koyeb.com/

💡 Looking for an easier way to manage content? Try Strapi!

Strapi Cloud is a fully-managed hosting platform for deploying Strapi and giving you everything you need to run Strapi in production without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.

• Production-ready in minutes: Deploy directly from your GitHub repo, choose your region, and launch your project in a few clicks.
• Flexible and in control: Manage custom domains, multiple environments, real-time logs, and your preferred tech stack.
• Optimized for performance: Strapi Cloud includes a fully configured database, email provider, and CDN.
• Data portability: Download database backups anytime for local analysis, debugging, or migration.

Start building with Strapi today and experience a developer-first, high-performance headless CMS that makes content management effortless.