Compare MageLift to ACC / Upsun

Side-by-side for people evaluating Magento PaaS against running Magento in their own cloud. Cost numbers here are illustrative - plug in your own quotes.

Audience

• Agencies with roughly 3-20 Magento shops that have (or want) AWS/GCP accounts
• SME Magento owners who can follow YAML/CLI docs without a dedicated DevOps hire

What you buy vs what you rent

	Adobe Commerce Cloud / Upsun-style PaaS	MageLift
Where Magento runs	Vendor-managed platform	Your AWS or GCP account
Config shape	PaaS YAML / UI	ACC/Upsun-shaped magelift.yaml + CLI
Lock-in	Platform + often region/tooling	Cloud APIs + open-source CLI (Apache-2.0)
Cost model	Platform fee + usage	Cloud bill (and your time). magelift cost estimates AWS shapes
Ops	Ticket / platform runbooks	Day-2 verbs on certified targets; you own IAM and spend

What is production-supported

Target	Status
AWS ECS Fargate	Certified
GCP GKE Autopilot	Certified
AWS EKS / OVH / Scaleway	Experimental

Details: capability matrix. Experimental targets are not production-supported.

Cost assumptions

Use magelift cost --env preview for AWS catalog shapes. Typical preview docs assume:

• A region that fits your account's free-tier story where relevant
• searchMode: disabled or other free-tier-safe search
• Database queues on preview (queueMode: db); prefer ecs-rabbitmq when you need a broker without Amazon MQ pricing
• Destroy when the spike is done

MageLift does not claim a fixed monthly savings figure. Compare against your PaaS quote with the same traffic and catalog assumptions.

Migration

Config import (magelift init --from-acc / --from-upsun), dump seed, media, and DNS cutover: migrating-from-paas and weekend-migrate. Existing AWS VPC/RDS: brownfield-attach.

Trust

• Apache-2.0 and NOTICE
• First release ships archives with checksums / SBOM (GoReleaser); images use Cosign on GHCR
• Hosted CI runs on the public repo (release-readiness); path-filtered green on main is required before v1.0.0-rc.1. Force-all go-verify proof is recorded in lint-policy when available.

Next

Getting started → examples/sample-shop/ in the repo → CONTRIBUTING.