Welcome to Launch Week 02. To kick things off, we’re releasing Railway V3, which is faster and cheaper than the Railway you already know and love.

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Railway is launching V3, branded as 'Railway Metal,' built on their own data centers rather than renting from major cloud providers. The release claims ~50% cost reduction compared to AWS/GCP/Azure, with performance improvements of up to 6x on multicore, 3x on networking, and 10x on volume writes. Pricing changes for customers with 80%+ usage on Metal include no seat costs, 50% cheaper egress, 40% cheaper storage, and no incremental cost for add-ons like HIPAA compliance. The announcement frames Railway's self-owned infrastructure as a strategic advantage that enables better margins and lower prices, contrasting with competitors who resell cloud capacity at a markup.

Railway V3: Faster and Cheaper