Cloud infrastructure for SaaS and startups
Ship on managed Kubernetes and virtual machines, keep your customers' data in India, and pay a fixed monthly price in rupees that you can plan a runway around.
In short
What does Neon Cloud offer SaaS companies and startups?
Neon Cloud gives SaaS teams the building blocks to run a product in production: managed Kubernetes with a free control plane, Linux and Windows virtual machines, NVMe block storage, S3-compatible object storage, private networks and load balancers. Each resource has a fixed monthly price in rupees, every VM includes 5 TB of internet transfer pooled across your VMs, and our engineers can help you plan a move from another cloud.
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- Best for
- B2B and B2C SaaS, software vendors, and startups whose hyperscaler credits are running out.
- Typical setup
- Kubernetes or VMs for the app, NVMe volumes for the databases you run, object storage for uploads and backups.
- Where your data lives
- In India, in our Delhi NCR region. Backups stay in India too.
- How it's billed
- In rupees, a fixed monthly price per resource, excluding GST.
- Security assurance
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified and SOC 2 Type II audited.
- Support and uptime
- 24/7 support and a 99.95% uptime SLA on the Essential and Premium plans (99.9% on Starter).
The challenge
What do SaaS teams need from a cloud?
Early on, the cloud bill and the security questionnaire matter as much as raw performance.
A bill you can plan around
Runway depends on knowing next month's cost. Dollar-based rates, metering by the hour or second and per-GB transfer charges make hyperscaler bills hard to forecast.
Environments that cost less than production
Development, staging and production each need their own network and access rules, but test environments shouldn't cost as much as the real thing.
Room to grow without changing clouds
What runs on three VMs today may need a Kubernetes cluster next year. The platform should let you move up without a second migration.
Answers for enterprise buyers
Larger customers ask where data lives, who can reach it and which certifications back it. You need answers you can put in writing.
How Neon Cloud fits
Which Neon Cloud services fit a SaaS product?
Everything a typical SaaS stack needs, on one account and one monthly bill.
Managed Kubernetes
Neon Kubernetes Engine runs and upgrades the control plane at no charge. Worker nodes are billed like VMs, and node pools scale with demand.
Virtual machines
Five families from 1 vCPU and 1 GB up to 96 vCPU, on Linux or Windows. Small Basic VMs keep development and staging inexpensive.
Block and object storage
NVMe volumes in three performance tiers for the databases you run, and S3-compatible object storage for uploads, assets and backups.
Private networking
A VPC per environment with private subnets and security groups, load balancers with health checks, and a client VPN for your team.
Security built in
Security groups, IAM with roles and always-on L3/L4 DDoS protection come with every account. Add a dedicated firewall when you need one.
Support that grows with you
Start on Starter support. Move to Essential for 24/7 help with critical incidents, or Premium for an account manager and migration planning.
Reference architecture
What does a typical SaaS setup look like?
Traffic comes in through a load balancer to a Kubernetes cluster, with data on NVMe volumes and files in object storage, inside a private network for each environment.
Assess
Share what you run today. We map each service to Neon Cloud resources and estimate the monthly cost in rupees.
Build staging first
Create a VPC and a small cluster for staging, deploy your images and test against a copy of real data.
Move production
Copy the data, switch DNS in a planned window and keep the old environment until you're confident.
Run and grow
Add nodes, volumes or another environment as you grow. Every resource shows up on one monthly bill.
Security and compliance
How do you answer an enterprise security review?
Enterprise customers will ask where their data lives and how it's protected. Neon Cloud gives you answers you can put in writing.
- Customer data and backups stay in India, which keeps data-residency clauses in your customers' contracts simple.
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified and SOC 2 Type II audited. The certificate and report are shared under NDA for vendor reviews.
- IAM with roles and multi-factor sign-in, so only the right people can reach production.
- Encryption at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.3.
- A data processing agreement is available on request.
Security is shared: Neon Cloud secures the platform, the facility and the network; you secure your applications, your accounts and the data you put in them.
Use cases
What do SaaS teams run on Neon Cloud?
From a first production deployment to a multi-tenant platform.
Multi-tenant SaaS
One cluster with a namespace per tenant, or a separate VPC for customers who ask for isolation.
APIs and mobile backends
Stateless services behind a load balancer, with node pools that add capacity when traffic rises.
Background jobs and queues
Workers on CPU-optimized VMs for builds, reports, imports and data processing.
Development and staging
Small Basic VMs or a second cluster for each environment, kept apart by their own VPCs.
AI features
Inference and fine-tuning on cloud GPUs, quoted on request, next to the app that calls them.
Windows and .NET products
Windows Server and SQL Server licences billed monthly with the VM, for vendors selling Windows software.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Neon Cloud for SaaS and startups.
- Yes, if you want production infrastructure with predictable costs. You pay a fixed monthly price per resource in rupees, starting with small Basic VMs, and you add Kubernetes, storage and support as you grow. Pricing is the same for every customer, with no introductory credits, so our team helps you size a setup that fits your budget.
- The Neon Kubernetes Engine control plane costs nothing. You pay for worker nodes at the same rates as virtual machines, plus the block storage and load balancers the cluster uses. The pricing calculator shows the monthly total in rupees.
- It depends on the workload, but customers typically pay 30–40% less than on the hyperscalers for comparable compute, storage and transfer. Prices are fixed per resource per month in rupees, and every VM includes 5 TB of internet transfer a month, pooled across your VMs.
- Yes. The migration assessment gives you a first estimate, and our engineers can plan the move with you. Migration planning and coordination are included on the Premium support plan; the Essential plan includes a basic migration consultation.
- In India. Neon Cloud runs in a data centre colocated in a Tier III facility in Delhi NCR (Noida), and your data, including backups, stays in India unless you move it.
- Yes. Software vendors can host their products on Neon Cloud and work with us through Neon Nexus, the Neon Cloud partner programme. The ISV programme page explains how it works.
Related guides
- Cloud hosting for startups in India
- Cloud hosting for independent software vendors (ISVs)
- The partner programme for ISVs
- Why data locality is the next big advantage in SaaS hosting
- Kubernetes platforms for startups and large enterprises
- Cloud hosting for AI startups: sizing your first production deployment
- How Kubernetes simplifies deployments, scaling and management
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