TL;DR
Railway optimizes for simplicity and rapid deployment, but its abstraction leaves you exposed when platform-level routing or control-plane dependencies fail, as they did during the roughly 8-hour May 2026 incident.
Fly.io gives you more control over regions, Machines, private networking, and app placement, but it asks you to take on more infrastructure decisions yourself.
If you are evaluating Railway alternatives, Fly.io is worth studying first when your concern is control. It is less compelling if what you liked about Railway was not thinking about infrastructure at all.
I used Railway for the same reason many developers do. It made deployment simple.
