Amazon DynamoDB vs Railway
Amazon DynamoDB
aws.amazon.com
Railway
railway.comSide by side
| Figure | Amazon DynamoDB | Railway |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $5/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 4 | 7 |
| Spec score · Databases And Backend | 9.0 (#2) | 8.8 (#6) |
| Company profile | Gartner lists Amazon Web Services as a public company founded in 2006, headquartered in Seattle, with more than 10,001 employees. | LinkedIn lists Railway as a privately held software-development company founded in 2020, headquartered in San Francisco, with 11–50 employees. |
| Compliance | AWS says DynamoDB security controls and compliance standards address requirements for governments, global banks, and other high-sensitivity organizations. | Railway's Trust Center lists SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, HIPAA, GDPR EU-US Data Privacy Framework, and Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework compliance information. |
| Integrations | The feature page lists integrations with AWS services; it describes AWS KMS encryption, IAM access control, and VPC endpoints with AWS PrivateLink. | Official Railway integrations include ChatGPT, Codex, Claude, Claude Code, Grok, Cursor, and other AI assistant connectors. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.3 out of 5 from 499 reviews | 4.7 out of 5 from 42 reviews |
| Rating on Gartner Peer Insights | 4.6 out of 5 from 377 ratings | 5.0 out of 5 from 4 reviews |
| Rating on GetApp | 4.4 out of 5 from 21 reviews | 0.0 out of 10 from 0 reviews |
| Scaling | DynamoDB has no servers to provision or patch and can automatically scale tables, including scaling to zero in on-demand mode. | Services can scale vertically, horizontally with replicas and across four global regions. |
| What it does | Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, fully managed distributed NoSQL database supporting key-value and document models with single-digit-millisecond performance. | Railway is a cloud platform for deploying, managing and scaling applications, databases and infrastructure without users managing traditional servers. |
Plans
Amazon DynamoDB
- Free tierFree
- On-demand capacityPrice not published
- Provisioned capacityPrice not published
- DynamoDB Free TierFree
Railway
- FreeFree
- TrialFree
- Hobby$5 a month
- Hobby$5 a month
- Pro$20 a month
- Pro$20 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, managed NoSQL database for applications that need single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, according to AWS. Users do not provision or patch database servers, and tables can scale automatically, including to zero in on-demand mode. Primary keys and global or local secondary indexes provide ways to query data. Global tables support multi-Region, multi-active operation; AWS says they are designed for up to 99.999% availability. The database also supports native vector search for similarity searches and agent memory use cases. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest by default, and IAM policies can restrict access to specific items and attributes. Point-in-time recovery provides continuous, per-second backups and restoration within a configured period of 1 to 35 days. A free tier is listed with 25 WCUs, 25 RCUs, and 25 GB of storage per Region and payer account, among other limits. On-demand capacity is billed per request consumed; provisioned capacity is billed for specified capacity even if usage is lower.
Railway
Railway is a deployment platform for teams that want to provision infrastructure, develop locally against it, and deploy services to the cloud. Projects can start from Docker images, GitHub repositories, local repositories, container registries, or templates. Railway offers PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis database templates with built-in backups, plus persistent volumes with up to 5 TB of storage. Networking includes public and private options, TCP proxying, custom domains, and managed TLS certificates. Services can scale vertically, horizontally, and across four regions. Operational tools include logs retained for up to 90 days, configurable dashboards, distributed tracing, health checks, usage limits, and alerts. Teams can use unlimited environments, pull-request and preview deployments, GitHub branch deploys, approval gates, audit logs, and rollbacks. Railway also provides a GraphQL API, a CLI, and iOS and Android apps for deploying, monitoring, and managing services. The Trial plan includes a one-time $5 free credit; Hobby costs $5 a month and Pro costs $20 a month. Enterprise pricing is custom.