What is Drift?
Drift is a hyposcaler — a deliberately small cloud. Instead of a sprawling catalog of products and a console you need a certification to navigate, Drift gives you three composable services that cover what most applications actually need: Atomic for compute, Backbone for data, and Canvas for hosting. You declare what you want in one file and ship it with one command — no dashboards, no boilerplate, no infrastructure to babysit.
Drift is free to start — enough functions, collections, queues, blobs, secrets, and a Canvas site to build and ship something real, with no credit card and no expiration. When you need more, you configure exactly the resources you want and see the price update live. Fixed monthly cost per resource, prepaid. No tiers to outgrow, no surprises.
What you get out of the box
- Custom domains for your applications, easily manageable through the CLI.
- Automatic TLS on every slice and custom domain, nothing to request or renew.
- No cold starts. Your functions stay responsive.
- Same-origin frontend and API. Your site calls your functions with no CORS dance.
- Encrypted secrets, injected at deploy time. Never pasted into a dashboard.
- CLI-first. Create, deploy, inspect, and roll back without leaving the terminal.
- Made in Europe, with privacy and fair, transparent pricing as defaults.