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by theonething 1210 days ago
Thank you. Aptible looks promising.

I have a question about endpoints. It seems like you guys charge per endpoint. I don't quite understand this. So if I'm developing an api only application, every api endpoint I develop in my application will be charged? And for Aptible to keep track, would I have to register each endpoint I develop?

If my application was just serving dynamic html pages, I wouldn't be charged per url of my application right? So why would I be charged per api endpoint?

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Another question. Do you guys offer any SSO solutions? If not, if I used say Auth0 for authentication, are there any issues with integrating with Aptible?
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fancyremarker 1210 days ago
"Endpoints" on Aptible are load balancers. So you would pay for each load balancer your API needs (usually just 1), not every API endpoint. Thanks for the feedback on that — we will update the language to be clear that these are load balancers, not API endpoints.

We don't provide a solution for implementing SSO in your own application, but many of our customers do integrate with Auth0 without issue. For your own team's access _to Aptible_, we offer SSO through SAML integration with any provider (Google, Okta): https://deploy-docs.aptible.com/docs/sso

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theonething 1209 days ago
Thanks, that clears things up.

Another question. I tried looking for the answer on the website, but couldn't find it. Is it possible to use my own AWS account and integrate it with Aptible or does Aptible provide their AWS assets for my use? The former would be ideal for us as we would like to own (more accurately, rent them ourselves) all of our AWS assets and just have someone like Aptible help us to manage them.

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fancyremarker 1208 days ago
Aptible hosts (and pays for) AWS resources on your behalf, similar to Heroku/Render/Railway. Last year, we built support for integrating Aptible into your own AWS account, but only a handful of existing customers are currently using that, and it's not available in the product by default. I'd be interested to learn why you prefer this model. If you're willing to chat about it, my email is in my profile.

Alternatively, have you checked out other PaaS-in-your-own-IaaS solutions like:

- https://porter.run/

- https://www.flightcontrol.dev/

- https://coolify.io/ (OSS, not managed)

These might not meet all your needs, and I think they're all relatively new.

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