There are two common ways to make cloud infrastructure easier. You can give developers better tools for managing it themselves, or you can move the application onto a platform that manages the infrastructure for them. Both approaches reduce work, but the second usually introduces a tradeoff: simplicity comes from running inside somebody else’s environment.
monolayer takes a different approach. The control plane determines what an application needs and manages its deployment, while the application and its infrastructure run inside the customer’s AWS account. Databases, compute, storage and the other resources that make up the running system remain within an AWS environment the customer owns.
That separation matters. Existing AWS boundaries around data, identity, networking and cost remain useful instead of being replaced by a new hosting boundary. At the same time, developers do not need to turn every application change into an infrastructure project. monolayer can manage the lifecycle of the system without becoming the place where the system ultimately lives.
We think ownership and automation should reinforce each other rather than compete.
Running in your own cloud should not mean assembling everything yourself, and using a platform should not require giving the platform ownership of your infrastructure.
The application can remain yours, the AWS account can remain yours, and the work between the two can increasingly take care of itself.