Hi everyone, I’m an analytics engineer and looking for an orchestration solution on AWS for some Python-based dataflows. Prefect seems like a great option for us on paper either with ECS or EKS implementation on our AWS instance, but my sysops team have an uncertainty about whether we can fairly use it without using paid Prefect Cloud services. I understand myself that Prefect is “open-source” and therefore if we host it ourselves we should be able to spin up what we need on the free tier, no? Is it the case that we would have to use one of the pricing plans to automate with Prefect even if we host ourselves?

You can host it yourself, you will just be without security for the prefect-ui and without workspaces for multiple environments etc

👋 welcome @Fraser - @redsquare is correct, and to expand: • you'd need to host a Prefect server yourself on your own infrastructure (and make sure it doesn't go down) • concepts like users/roles/workspaces don't exist in self-hosted • features like automations/event feed don't exist in self-hosted

Welcome to the group, @Fraser! 🎉

Hey there @Fraser, welcome! 👋

Hey @Fraser, welcome! 🚀