Laravel Cloud vs. Laravel Vapor
Laravel Cloud delivers autoscaling, zero-downtime deploys, and managed services without the AWS setup or maintenance Vapor requires. It's the fastest way to build, deploy, and scale Laravel apps.
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Laravel Cloud
Laravel Cloud is a fully managed deployment platform built specifically for Laravel. Cloud delivers predictable performance with autoscaling, managed databases, and a streamlined developer workflow — without forcing you into the AWS console.
- Predictable performance with dedicated AWS EC2 servers and autoscaling — no cold starts.
- Managed databases, Redis-compatible stores, and object storage included out of the box.
- A single dashboard for deploys, logs, scheduled tasks, and queues — no AWS console required.
Laravel Vapor
Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform that runs Laravel applications on AWS Lambda. It can scale well at very high request volumes but requires AWS knowledge, suffers from cold-start latency, and exposes more infrastructure complexity to your team.
- Lambda-based architecture introduces cold starts that affect latency-sensitive workloads.
- Requires familiarity with the AWS Management Console for deeper configuration and debugging.
- Per-invocation pricing can become harder to forecast as your application grows.
“We are surprised by the difference in feel of the site. According to Nightwatch, we won <100 ms per request, but each page feels much snappier. The gain of 100 ms per call in multiple calls in a page only adds to that feeling.”
François-Alexandre Perreault
Solutions Architect at Pyle
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Who should choose Laravel Cloud vs. Laravel Vapor?
Cloud is the new default for Laravel teams. Vapor still fits a narrow set of serverless workloads.
Laravel Cloud
Choose Laravel Cloud if you want a managed, Laravel-native platform with predictable performance, simple operations, and no AWS console required. Cloud is the right default for almost every Laravel team today.
Laravel Vapor
Choose Laravel Vapor only if you specifically need a Lambda-based serverless architecture, are comfortable inside the AWS Management Console, and can tolerate cold-start latency in exchange for fine-grained per-invocation scaling.
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Frequently asked questions: Laravel Cloud vs. Vapor
Users who've migrated from Vapor to Cloud report cost reductions of up to 30% and speed gains of around 7%. Cloud removes the AWS console, Lambda cold starts, and serverless complexity that Vapor inherits, replacing them with a managed, predictable deployment experience purpose-built for Laravel.
No. Laravel Cloud runs on dedicated AWS EC2 servers, giving you predictable performance with autoscaling — without the cold starts and per-invocation pricing of serverless platforms like Vapor.
In most cases, no. Laravel Cloud is designed to run standard Laravel applications without modification. See the Vapor to Cloud migration guide for the small set of changes some teams need to make.
You can keep using external AWS services like S3, SES, and others — just update the environment variables in Cloud to point at them.
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