For software vendors
Win the deals self-hosting keeps blocking.
Your customers run your software in their own cloud and account, and you ship one product from one place. No second codebase. No second team.
The deal you’re losing
SaaS-only used to be enough.
“We can’t sign unless this runs in our cloud.”
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Build a self-hosted version
A second product and a second team.
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Hand-deliver it per customer
A project for every new logo.
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Walk away
The deal closes with the vendor who could ship to their cloud.
Revenue you can’t reach, or margin you lose reaching it.
The shift
One product. Two ways to deliver it.
Your SaaS keeps running exactly as it does today. The same product also becomes something a customer can install in their own cloud: from a link, on their own account, kept separate from every other customer.
Your product, packaged once
One versioned package. What a customer configures becomes their setup screen.
Your SaaS, as today
Your cloud, your customers, nothing changes for them.
Their own cloud, from a link
Their account, their keys, kept separate from every other customer.
It is the product you already have, delivered where the customer needs it.
How it works
Package once. Send one link. Manage every install.
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Package your product once
What a customer configures becomes their setup screen.
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Send one link
They sign up, pick where it runs, install. You are not on the call.
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Manage every install from one place
Ship an update once; every customer reviews it before it lands.
What changes
What changes for your business.
Revenue you couldn’t reach
Close the regulated and enterprise customers self-hosting locked you out of.
One release, both ways
Your SaaS and self-hosted customers run the same product. Nothing to fork, no second team to fund.
Their security team says yes
It runs in their account, under their control. The question that used to end the deal answers itself.
You keep control. So do they.
It runs in their account. They hold the keys.
Every install runs in the customer’s own cloud and account. The install reaches out to Akua; Akua never reaches in. They can cut the connection and it keeps running. You push updates they review before they land.
- Their cloud Their own cloud key. Akua-managed machines today on Hetzner Cloud.
- Their cluster Any Kubernetes cluster they already operate, imported.
- Their data center or on-premises Machines they attach. Nothing leaves the building.
Your customer chooses the provider, the country and the regime. If they ever want to leave, the software keeps running on their own systems. That is by design.
Pricing
Predictable, and easy to defend to finance.
We charge for the platform. Your customer pays their cloud provider directly, on their own account. No markup on compute.
In pilot
Built with a vendor whose contracts require it.
A logistics-software vendor whose customers require deployment on their own servers is piloting Akua for exactly that: every new customer onboarded the same way, instead of a separate project for each one.
- Logistics
- Health
- Finance
- Public sector
Pilot partners are named once they consent. Until then: two clinic applications, a logistics vendor, a precious-metals trader.
What you stop doing
The work that disappears.
- Per-customer install runbooks
- A second codebase for the self-hosted version
- The deployment-engineering hire
- “We’ll build a self-hosted version next year”
Questions
What your engineering lead will ask.
Clear answers about deployment, control, and what your team keeps.
Do I maintain two codebases?
No. The same product, delivered two ways. Your SaaS keeps running as it does today; the same package installs into a customer’s own infrastructure.
Do my customers need to know Kubernetes?
No. They sign up from your link, pick where it runs and install. Kubernetes is underneath: an Akua-managed cluster, a cluster they import, or machines they attach.
What if a SaaS customer wants to move to self-hosted later?
Same package they are already running, different install target. You do not build anything twice.
How is this different from what I have already evaluated?
Other tools make your team operate the deployment. Here the customer installs it themselves and keeps control, and you manage every install from one place.
What is the smallest commitment to evaluate?
Get access, package your product and run the first install on the free allowance: one managed cluster and one Akua-managed machine, or your own cloud key from day one.
Stop losing the deals
self-hosting blocks.
Ship your next customer on infrastructure they own. For the CEO: new revenue, no second product. For the engineering lead: no custom delivery work. For their security team: their account, their keys.