Railway vs Fly.io: I Wanted More Control After Railway’s May 2026 Outage (opens in new tab)

TL;DR Railway optimizes for simplicity and rapid deployment, but its abstraction leaves you exposed when platform-level routing or control-plane dependencies fail, as they did during the roughly 8-hour May 2026 incident. Fly.io gives you more control over regions, Machines, private networking, and app placement, but it asks you to take on more infrastructure decisions yourself. If you are evaluating Railway alternatives, Fly.io is worth studying first when your concern is control. It is less ...