Managed Immich Hosting — production-ready from $15 a month
Self-hosted photo and video backup with AI-powered organisation. Deployed on your own dedicated instance in AWS, Azure, or GCP, kept patched, backed up, and monitored by ManageStacks — standard Immich, no lock-in.
Immich is a high-performance, self-hosted photo and video backup solution with AI-powered face recognition, automatic mobile upload, and a Google Photos-like interface. ManageStacks deploys Immich with PostgreSQL, Redis, and machine-learning sidecar pre-configured.
What does Immich do, and why do teams deploy it?
Immich is a rapidly growing open-source photo and video management platform designed as a direct self-hosted replacement for Google Photos. It features automatic mobile backup for iOS and Android, AI-driven face and object recognition, reverse geocoding, smart search, and a responsive web UI that feels native.
Under the hood Immich leverages PostgreSQL with pgvecto.rs for vector-similarity search, Redis for job queuing, and a dedicated machine-learning microservice running CLIP and facial-recognition models. It supports hardware-accelerated transcoding for video thumbnails and streaming, RAW file support, and shared albums with external link sharing.
ManageStacks handles the complex multi-service orchestration — database, Redis, ML sidecar, and reverse proxy — so you get a turnkey photo platform without managing containers or GPU passthrough. Daily encrypted backups protect your irreplaceable media library.
- Automatic iOS and Android photo and video backup
- AI face recognition and object detection
- CLIP-based smart search across your entire library
- Reverse geocoding with interactive map view
- Shared albums with external sharing links
- RAW photo support and hardware-accelerated video transcoding
Self-hosted photo and video backup with AI-powered organisation
Immich as a self-hosted alternative to Google Photos and iCloud Photos
Instead of paying per-seat fees to a SaaS vendor, teams self-host Immich to keep full control of their data and infrastructure. ManageStacks removes the operational overhead — you get the cost and privacy benefits of open source with the reliability of a managed platform.
What does managed Immich hosting cost?
Flat per-app pricing, in your chosen AWS, Azure, or GCP region. No per-user pricing — a busy deployment costs the same as a quiet one.
Starter
Staging and internal tools. Dedicated instance, TLS, daily backups, managed upgrades.
Standard
Production workloads. Adds monitoring, staging environment, region choice, priority support.
Business
High-traffic and compliance workloads. Adds a high-availability replica and same-day support.
24×7 SRE retainer
Round-the-clock on-call across every hosted application, for teams that need a pager answered at 3am.
When is self-hosting Immich the right answer instead?
“Managed hosting is not always the correct call.”
Self-host when a platform team already runs the infrastructure and on-call rotation to operate Immich at genuinely low marginal cost. Self-host when compliance requires an air-gapped or on-premises deployment that no hosted option can satisfy. And self-host when the deployment depends on heavy customisation with a fast internal build-deploy loop, because an internal release process will beat any managed change process.
For everyone else — teams whose engineers have better things to do than shepherd upgrades — managed hosting is cheaper than the hours it replaces.
Which cloud should Immich run on — AWS, Azure or GCP?
For most workloads, the choice of cloud matters less than proximity: run Immich in the same cloud and region as the applications and data it talks to, because every request between them adds a round trip. The underlying compute performs equivalently across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
In practice, an existing cloud footprint decides it. All plans support all three clouds, and moving regions later is a scheduled migration, not a rebuild.
Deepest managed-service catalog, default when there's no existing footprint
Best fit for teams already on Microsoft 365 or Entra ID
Strongest for data/analytics-adjacent workloads
Every plan supports AWS, Azure, and GCP — region choice included.
Common questions about Immich on ManageStacks
Can Immich on ManageStacks replace Google Photos?
Yes. Immich provides automatic mobile backup, AI-powered search, face recognition, shared albums, and a timeline view — the core features that make Google Photos popular. Your photos stay in your cloud, not Google's.
Does ManageStacks handle Immich's machine-learning service?
Yes. ManageStacks deploys the ML sidecar with pre-loaded CLIP and facial-recognition models. Face detection and smart search work out of the box with no additional configuration.
How much storage does Immich need on ManageStacks?
Storage depends on your library size. ManageStacks provisions expandable block storage, and Immich supports external storage backends including S3-compatible object storage for cost-effective scaling.
Does Immich support sharing photos with family?
Yes. Immich supports shared albums, partner sharing (automatic sharing of new photos with a partner account), and external share links with optional password protection.
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