Gateways vs Netlify
Netlify is strong for deploying modern web experiences: static sites, frontend frameworks, serverless functions, forms, edge features, and Git-based workflows on Netlify’s platform. Gateways is for teams whose infrastructure must live in their own AWS, Azure, or GCP accounts. It gives those teams a visual operations layer for servers, scalable servers, databases, DNS, storage, functions, connections, environments, activity, SSH access, and APIs.At A Glance
Choose Netlify When
- Your product is primarily a web app, marketing site, docs site, or composable frontend.
- You want fast Git-to-deploy workflows with Netlify-managed build, hosting, edge, and functions.
- You prefer platform-managed infrastructure over direct ownership of cloud resources.
Choose Gateways When
- Your workloads, data, networking, and billing must remain in AWS, Azure, or GCP accounts your organization owns.
- Your system includes more than frontend delivery: servers, databases, DNS, storage, functions, runtime configuration, and cross-resource connections.
- You want the speed of a product UI without losing direct access to the underlying cloud resources, SSH, provider consoles, and billing.
- You need an operational fallback: if Gateways is unavailable, the resources still exist in your cloud account and can be inspected or operated directly.