Alt cloud platform Railway forced to pause lowest tiers after onrush of GCP customers

On Monday, Railway, a provider of cloud infrastructure services, decided to throttle software builds by customers in its lowest paying tiers to accommodate unexpected demand for service following the Google Cloud Platform outage last week.

Angelo Saraceno, solutions engineer for Railway, explained the situation to The Register following a complaint from a customer who expressed concern about service interruption.

"Railway has seen significant workload growth, particularly from users migrating off GCP [Google Cloud Platform] and Heroku," said Saraceno via email. "As a result, when platform resources get strained, we degrade service in tiers: first builds, then signups, starting with the lower tiers."

Saraceno said that in this instance, Railway temporarily throttled and then paused deployments for Trial and Hobby customers in order to maintain service quality for Pro customers. Enterprise customers, we're told, were unaffected because they run on dedicated infrastructure.

We're told that the only paying customers ...