Overview: FlexSite vs Amazee.io for Drupal teams
Amazee.io’s Lagoon platform provides Kubernetes-based hosting for Drupal and other workloads, with services such as Redis and Varnish, and pricing tiers that span from Cloud Basic/Professional to fully dedicated cloud setups.
FlexSite focuses on making Drupal hosting turnkey: performance stack included in all plans, fully flexible environments (pay only for what you use), an integrated AI assistant, deployment visibility, site alerts, configuration advisories, and mobile app for a managed, Drupal-centric experience.
Feature comparison: performance, CDN, and environments
| Capability | Amazee.io | FlexSite |
|---|---|---|
| Varnish cache | Varnish service available in Lagoon for Drupal sites. | Included in all plans. |
| Redis | Redis service available and recommended for Drupal caching. | Included in all plans. |
| CDN | CDN + WAF offering available; details depend on package. | Included in all plans (CloudFront). |
| Multi-environment | Cloud Basic/Professional typically provide 2 development + 1 production environment; dedicated cloud can offer more or unlimited. | Fully flexible—add or remove when needed, name as you like, pay only for what you use. |
| Deployment visibility | Varies by setup; not always end-to-end. | See what happens from code push until changes are ready on the environment. |
| Site Alerts | Monitoring available; proactive alerts vary. | Proactive monitoring to detect errors and notify you. |
| Configuration Advisories | Not typically offered. | Per-environment recommendations to get the best from your sites. |
| Mobile app | Not typically offered. | Receive project alerts and talk with Flexy for project status whenever and wherever. |
| Built-in AI | Private AI assistant via amazee.ai, offered as a separate data-sovereign AI solution. | Flexy AI included. |
Built-in performance stack
Amazee.io provides the building blocks for high performance: Varnish, Redis, and optional CDN+WAF. Teams choose and configure these services to match project needs and budgets.
FlexSite delivers a consistent performance baseline across all plans: Varnish as the front-line cache, Redis integrated as the default application cache backend, and CloudFront CDN for global distribution. Rather than deciding which projects “justify” advanced services, FlexSite assumes every Drupal project benefits from them and includes them by default.
Flexible environments
Amazee.io’s cloud pricing typically starts with a limited number of environments (for example, two development plus one production environment on Cloud Basic), with more flexibility and scale on dedicated cloud offerings.
FlexSite environments are fully flexible: you decide when to add or remove one, name them as you want, and pay only for what you use. Short-lived environments for QA, review, and experimentation are supported—for teams managing multiple Drupal sites with complex QA and review processes, this can dramatically simplify planning.
AI-assisted platform
Amazee.io, via amazee.ai, offers a privacy-focused private AI assistant positioned as an alternative to mainstream AI tools. It is operated as a separate product, not as a feature inside Lagoon itself.
FlexSite’s Flexy AI is embedded directly into the FlexSite hosting platform and aims at operational and configuration support specific to Drupal on FlexSite. In practice, this means AI is closer to the day-to-day hosting workflow.
Deployment visibility, site alerts, configuration advisories, and mobile app
FlexSite provides deployment visibility from code push until changes are ready on the environment, proactive site alerts to detect errors and notify you, per-environment configuration advisories to get the best from your sites, and a mobile app to receive project alerts and talk with Flexy for project status whenever and wherever.
Migrating from Amazee.io to FlexSite
To move Drupal workloads from Amazee.io to FlexSite, teams typically export code, databases, and files from Lagoon, recreate services on FlexSite using its default stack, and map environment concepts to flexible FlexSite environments (add, remove, name as you need—pay only for what you use). The FlexSite team can assist with planning, testing, and executing such migrations.
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