Iron.io

Simple, Flexible, Reliable Serverless Tools with fanatical support

Iron.io provides hosted serverless tools for running background workloads, handling asynchronous messaging, and storing cached data. The platform is designed to let teams offload job execution and queue management to managed infrastructure, with autoscaling and GPU support available for container-based workloads.

The suite includes IronWorker for container-based workloads with GPU support and autoscaling; IronMQ, a message queue written in Golang; IronFunctions, an open-source, cloud-agnostic function platform that supports migrating Lambda functions; and IronCache, a memcache-compatible cache store. IronWorker and IronMQ are presented as the core services for background processing and messaging, while IronFunctions and IronCache extend the platform to serverless functions and key-value caching.

Iron.io is aimed at teams that need to run background tasks, process messages at scale, and manage serverless functions across cloud environments. The platform offers a free trial, and the homepage references enterprise support options, though specific editions, seat-based pricing, or usage-based plans are not detailed on the page.

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