Hey everyone 
On behalf of the team, I’d like to announce that Galaxy has been wholly rebuilt from the ground up!
We recently released a video introducing Galaxy’s new vision: all apps in one cloud.
Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z9j9BMnODk
This new unified platform supports your favorite frameworks: Meteor, Express, Flask, Django, and more, with a seamless deployment experience.
What’s New:
- Support for multiple frameworks
- Streamlined deployment process
- Simplified scaling
- Improved developer experience
We’d love to hear your feedback as you try out the new platform!
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Super excited to see Galaxy getting this kind of love — congrats to the team on the full rebuild! Hope this helps Meteor thrive long term too.
Quick questions:
- What’s Galaxy built on under the hood? Is it using AWS, GCP, etc. via automation or are you folks running on bare metal / colo? Asking for a friend… (we might want to run “galaxy” on-prem in our air-gapped client environments to scale meteor…)
- We do everything on our own metal and only dip into cloud for FedRamp / GovCloud stuff. Curious if Galaxy is positioned to support customers with those kinds of security needs?
- Does Galaxy support compliance requirements like HIPAA, SOC 2, etc.?
- How are you handling latency / placement groups if you are using cloud? We’ve had a hell of a time getting good latency between AWS resources / Azure resources. We ultimately gave up on using things like RDS because their managed databases were too far from the web servers to get decent latency.
Excited to see what’s next for Meteor Software!
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Really cool to see Galaxy evolving beyond just Meteor support, the broader framework compatibility is d welcome move.
@wreiske brought up some great questions I’m also curious about, especially around compliance and deployment environments. We’ve run into similar latency issues with cloud-managed services, and I’d be interested to know if Galaxy lets users control infrastructure placement more granularly (e.g., region selection, affinity groups, etc.).
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@wreiske @metrich - Great questions! Here’s the breakdown:
Infrastructure
Galaxy is built on top of well-established cloud providers like AWS combined with bare metal servers. We use custom automation for container orchestration, load balancing, monitoring, and automatic scaling across US East, EU West, and APAC regions. This setup gives us way better performance and cost efficiency than pure virtualized cloud solutions.
On-premises support: We’re definitely planning this but don’t have a firm date yet. The idea is you’ll be able to run Galaxy on your own infrastructure, whether that’s AWS, GCP, Azure, or your own bare metal, while still getting our full dashboard and PaaS experience. It should work perfectly for air-gapped environments.
Compliance & Security
We’ve started working on SOC 2 and want to add ISO27001 and HIPAA support down the road. It’s definitely on our radar for enterprise customers.
Latency Solutions
We know latency between services can kill performance, we’ve dealt with the same headaches. Our approach includes letting you choose your region and leveraging bare metal for that direct hardware performance without virtualization overhead.
We also offer a Custom Plan where you can set up direct peering between your existing database setup (like MongoDB Atlas or RDS) and Galaxy. This cuts latency significantly and works great for production-critical systems where every millisecond matters. No enterprise costs too, you just pay for what you use.
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