What is AWS App Runner?

AWS App Runner is an AWS service that provides a fast, simple, and cost-effective way to deploy from source code or a container image directly to a scalable and secure web application in the AWS Cloud. You don't need to learn new technologies, decide which compute service to use, or know how to provision and configure AWS resources.

App Runner connects directly to your code or image repository. It provides an automatic integration and delivery pipeline with fully managed operations, high performance, scalability, and security.

Who is App Runner for?

If you're a developer, you can use App Runner to simplify the process of deploying a new version of your code or image repository.

For operations teams, App Runner enables automatic deployments each time a commit is pushed to the code repository or a new container image version is pushed to the image repository.

Accessing App Runner

You can define and configure your App Runner service deployments using any one of the following interfaces:

• App Runner console – Provides a web interface for managing your App Runner services.

• App Runner API – Provides a RESTful API for performing App Runner actions. For more information, see AWS App Runner API Reference.

• AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) – Provides commands for a broad set of AWS services, including Amazon VPC, and is supported on Windows, macOS, and Linux. For more information, see AWS Command Line Interface.

• AWS SDKs – Provides language-specific APIs and takes care of many of the connection details, such as calculating signatures, handling request retries, and error handling. For more information, see AWS SDKs.

Pricing for App Runner

App Runner provides a cost-effective way to run your application. You only pay for resources that your App Runner service consumes. Your service scales down to fewer compute instances when request traffic is lower. You have control over scalability settings: the lowest and highest number of provisioned instances, and the highest load an instance handles.

For more information about App Runner automatic scaling, see Managing App Runner automatic scaling.

For pricing information, see AWS App Runner pricing.

What's next

Learn how to get started with App Runner in the following topics:

• Setting up for App Runner – Complete the prerequisite steps for using App Runner.

• Getting started with App Runner – Deploy your first application to App Runner.