Managed Databases.
Self-Hosted Costs. Your Cloud.
Run fully managed databases on the cloud provider of your choice with complete infrastructure control, unified management, and up to 60% lower costs compared to traditional managed services.
Self-hosting gives teams full infrastructure control but often comes with significant operational overhead. Managed services reduce that burden but introduce higher costs and vendor lock-in. SelfHost.dev offers a third option: fully managed databases deployed directly inside your own cloud account.
Powerful Database Operations.
Zero Operational Stress
Everything you need to run production-grade databases across clouds, from provisioning to performance monitoring, in one unified platform.
From zero to production in 3 minutes
No Terraform, no YAML, no 47-step runbook. Just a form and a deploy button.
Failover that actually works
Multi-AZ with automatic replica promotion. When things go wrong (they will), traffic shifts in seconds, not hours.
One dashboard. All your clouds.
Manage databases across cloud from a single platform without switching between multiple provider consoles.
Secure, maintained, and monitored
Patches applied, configs hardened, alerts configured. You focus on features, we focus on not getting hacked.
Backups you don't have to think about
Continuous snapshots, point-in-time recovery, verified restores. The boring stuff, done right.
Real-time performance insights
IOPS, latency, connections, replication lag - 50+ metrics, live. Spot the bottleneck before it becomes an incident.
Database management for teams
who'd rather be building.
Everything you need to run production-grade databases across clouds, from provisioning to performance monitoring, in one unified platform.
Deploy to your cloud or ours
Provision databases directly in your AWS, GCP, or Azure account, keeping full control over infrastructure, networking, and data boundaries.
Built For Reliability
High availability, automated backups, replication, monitoring, and failover are built in so your databases stay resilient without complex manual setup.
Operate With Ease
Track performance, manage scaling, set alerts, and monitor activity from one unified dashboard instead of juggling multiple cloud consoles.
Complete Operational Visibility
Across Your Organisation
From performance and backups to alerts and activity tracking, manage every critical database operation from one unified platform.
Live Performance Monitoring
Track CPU, memory, disk I/O, latency, and throughput in real time to
understand how your databases perform under load
System Health
Overview
Instant visibility into overall database and infrastructure health so you can catch issues before they impact applications.
Backup & Recovery Status
See backup coverage, snapshot history, and recovery readiness at a glance so your data is always protected.
Storage & Capacity Insights
Monitor storage consumption and growth trends to plan scaling without over-provisioning.
Instance & Deployment Visibility
Know which instances are running, pending, or stopped across regions and cloud providers.
Intelligent Alerts & Incident Detection
Know about issues before users do. Proactive monitoring and smart alerts help detect anomalies, performance bottlenecks, and risks before they impact applications.
Multi-Cloud Resource Distribution
Understand how your databases are distributed across cloud providers, instance types, and regions in one unified view.
Operational Activity Log
Track database events like provisioning, scaling, backups, configuration changes, and user actions from a centralised activity timeline.
Managed databases, unmanaged costs.
Your Database Operations, Simplified
Most teams stitch together multiple tools to run databases reliably. SelfHost.dev
brings everything together in one unified platform.
Without SelfHost.Dev
Multiple tools. Fragmented visibility. Operational overhead.
With SelfHost.Dev
One platform. Centralised visibility.
User stories: find out why so many
people love us!
I've spent years writing Terraform scripts and debugging CloudFormation templates just to get databases running properly. SelfHost basically replaced two weeks of implementation work with a 10-minute setup.
The Multi-AZ configuration that used to take me days of testing just... works out of the box.
Atik Sharma
SelfHost is the first database tool where I didn't need to bug our infrastructure team every other day. Spun up a production database for our ML pipeline in literally 3 minutes. The real-time metrics are actually useful, I can see when my batch jobs are hammering the database and adjust accordingly.
Madhav Dhadwal
From a product perspective, SelfHost solved a bottleneck I didn't realise we had. Our engineering team used to spend 15-20% of sprint capacity on database operations - scaling, backup verification, incident response. That's now close to zero.
If SelfHost disappeared tomorrow (no offense), our databases would still be there. That's rare and it matters for long-term planning.
Eric Brian
All the essential information you
need to understand.
A managed self-hosted database gives you full infrastructure control while removing operational complexity. Your database runs in your own cloud account, but provisioning, backups, monitoring, high availability, and maintenance are automated by a platform like SelfHost.dev, combining ownership with managed-service simplicity.
Traditional managed databases run inside the provider’s infrastructure with limited system-level control. SelfHost.dev deploys databases inside your own cloud account using a Bring Your Own Cloud model, giving you better visibility, customisation, and cost control while still automating operations and maintenance tasks.
Bring Your Own Cloud means your database infrastructure lives in your personal cloud account rather than a vendor-controlled environment. You keep control over networking, security boundaries, and costs, while SelfHost.dev handles automation, monitoring, and reliability on top of your existing cloud resources.
Yes, SelfHost.dev allows you to to create database instances on their account of the cloud provider chosen by you, while you can also opt in to link your cloud account
Yes. SelfHost.dev helps reduce database costs by removing the premium markup of traditional managed database platforms. You pay directly for raw cloud infrastructure while still receiving automation, backups, and monitoring.
No. SelfHost.dev is designed for teams without deep database operations expertise. It automates provisioning, backups, monitoring, scaling, and maintenance, allowing developers to focus on building applications instead of managing infrastructure, scripts, or complex database reliability workflows.
SelfHost.dev supports Multi-AZ deployments with automated failover. If a primary database instance becomes unavailable, traffic shifts to a healthy replica automatically. This architecture reduces downtime risk and helps maintain production-grade reliability without requiring teams to manually configure complex failover systems.
SelfHost.dev provides centralised performance visibility, including IOPS, latency, throughput, connection usage, cache hit ratio, replication lag, and resource utilisation. These insights help teams diagnose bottlenecks, understand workload trends, and maintain healthy, high-performing databases without stitching together multiple monitoring tools.
Yes. SelfHost.dev is built for production-grade environments with automated backups, monitoring, high availability architecture, and security best practices. It supports mission-critical applications while reducing operational overhead typically required to maintain reliable self-hosted database infrastructure at scale.
Yes. SelfHost.dev supports multi-cloud database management, allowing teams to run databases across different cloud providers while monitoring everything from a single dashboard. This reduces complexity, improves visibility, and helps avoid vendor lock-in tied to a single cloud platform.
Whether you are tired of increasing costs on traditional managed database services or you are a solo developer looking for a budget-friendly & easy option to setup your cloud database, we're for you. It’s also ideal for growing startups and SaaS platforms that want more control and cost efficiency without hiring a full database operations team.