Ravion vs Wayfinder

Ravion is a framework and governed execution layer for internal developer platforms. It lets developers and AI agents provision, deploy and operate applications in a customer's AWS account. Platform teams can package existing Terraform as reusable modules with typed inputs, which developers use through forms. Each module instance is tracked as a stack with reviewable plans, approval gates, managed state and versioned resource history. Ravion supports deployments for containers, Lambdas and static sites, including rollbacks and deployment visibility. It works with Terraform providers and connects to AWS CloudWatch logs and metrics, Systems Manager Parameter Store and Secrets Manager, plus external CI through its API and CLI. Ravion says it uses short-lived, operation-scoped credentials through AWS STS and OIDC rather than storing AWS access keys. Infrastructure, application traffic, runtime secrets, builds, Terraform runs and pipeline runners stay in the customer's AWS account. AI agents can propose configuration changes and review dry-run diffs, subject to plans, policies and approval gates. AWS is supported today; Cloudflare, GCP and Azure are planned. The Individuals plan is free; Team is pay as you go, with module prices and pipeline-minute costs listed.

Wayfinder is an agentic software development lifecycle platform that runs in a customer's own cloud. Teams can deploy applications to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Kubernetes from a wayfinder.yaml file using wf up. Its agents can generate Cloud Resource Plans, create Stack Definitions from a repository, run AI deployments, and answer users through chat, the CLI, or an IDE. Plans are checked in the customer's cloud account against its policies before catalogue publication. Wayfinder describes per-workload OIDC federation for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud without static cloud keys at runtime, along with hierarchical role-based access, SSO, workspace-scoped tokens, and an exportable audit stream that includes agent actions. Secret storage uses envelope encryption through AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, or local encryption for self-hosted deployments. Integrations include cloud and Kubernetes services, Terraform, OpenTofu, Helm, Anthropic Claude, and Google Gemini. A free plan provides one production Kubernetes cluster and one seat. Starter costs £399/mo; Professional costs £2,499/mo. Enterprise pricing is custom and has an annual contract. Appvia is identified as the maker.