Managed Prefect Hosting — production-ready from $15 a month
Modern Python workflow orchestration platform. Deployed on your own dedicated instance in AWS, Azure, or GCP, kept patched, backed up, and monitored by ManageStacks — standard Prefect, no lock-in.
Prefect is a modern Python workflow orchestration platform for building, scheduling, and monitoring data pipelines — deployed and fully managed by ManageStacks on AWS, Azure, or GCP with automated SSL, monitoring, and daily backups.
What does Prefect do, and why do teams deploy it?
Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework that makes it simple to build, schedule, and monitor robust data pipelines using Python. With its hybrid execution model, Prefect lets you define workflows as native Python code using decorators, eliminating the need for DAG configuration files. It provides automatic retries, caching, concurrency controls, and a real-time dashboard for observability.
Prefect is designed for data engineers and ML teams who need reliable orchestration without the complexity of traditional tools like Airflow. Its Pythonic API means any Python script can become a production-grade pipeline with minimal changes, and its event-driven architecture supports both scheduled and reactive workflows.
- Pure Python workflow definitions with decorators
- Automatic retries, caching, and concurrency controls
- Real-time dashboard for flow run monitoring
- Event-driven and schedule-based triggering
- Built-in secret management and parameterization
- Hybrid execution model with remote workers
Modern Python workflow orchestration platform
What does managed Prefect 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 Prefect 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 Prefect 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 Prefect run on — AWS, Azure or GCP?
For most workloads, the choice of cloud matters less than proximity: run Prefect 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 Prefect on ManageStacks
How long does it take to deploy Prefect on ManageStacks?
Under 5 minutes. ManageStacks provisions Prefect Server with its PostgreSQL backend, SSL, monitoring, and backups automatically — no infrastructure setup required.
Can I connect my existing Prefect workers to a ManageStacks-managed server?
Yes. Your ManageStacks-managed Prefect Server exposes a secure API endpoint that remote workers and agents can connect to from any environment.
Does ManageStacks handle Prefect version upgrades?
Yes. We test each new Prefect release for stability before making it available. You can apply updates with one click or enable automatic updates.
Run Prefect without carrying the pager
Subscribe through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace. We handle provisioning, SSL, monitoring, backups, updates, and security. From $15/mo.