What Fly shipped in September 2026

Tag All the Things!

Fly.io released a technical guide showing how to implement tagging for Phoenix applications using Postgres array columns and Ecto. The post details database migrations, schema definitions, validation,…

Struct: A Machine Per Agent, Thousands at a Time

Struct, a Fly.io customer, adopted Fly Machines to run thousands of isolated agent sandboxes for incident response, ensuring hard multi-tenant security and sub-second startup times. Each agent runs in…

Kiloclaw: Hosting Thousands of Claws

KiloClaw, an AI agent platform, chose Fly.io to host thousands of OpenClaw instances due to its always-on machines, strong isolation, and security model. The case study emphasizes Fly.io’s ability to …

Starchild: Vibe Trading Requires Infrastructure That Can Keep Up

Starchild, a trading platform, leverages Fly Machines to run modular AI agents for vibe trading, suspending compute between tasks to reduce idle costs. Fly’s networking and isolation handle multi-agen…

Dat AI Systems: From Concept to Scale in Record Time

DAT AI Systems, a Pakistani startup, built a field operations solution for Lahore Waste Management Company using Fly.io’s infrastructure, Elixir, and serverless components. The system supports over 4,…

How Hatchet Keeps Background Tasks from Ruining Your Day

Hatchet, an open-source background task service, credits Fly.io’s Machines infrastructure for enabling stateful containers, multi-region scaling, and seamless deployments. The lean team avoided DevOps…

How Zapi Makes Building Internal Tools Less Painful

Zapi, a tool for turning PRDs into working prototypes, credits Fly.io’s Machines for instant stateful environments and fly-replay for eliminating routing complexity. The lean team avoids infrastructur…

How Steel.dev Turns AI Agents Into True Browser Ninjas

Steel.dev, an AI-driven browser automation platform, credits Fly.io’s Machines API for enabling rapid, scalable deployment of cloud browsers without Kubernetes complexity. Their orchestrator leverages…

How Turso Made SQLite Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Fly.io’s infrastructure enables Turso to offer a production-grade SQLite variant (libSQL) with replication, backups, and vector search, while leveraging Fly.io’s scale-to-zero and global deployment ca…

How Tigris Data Makes Object Storage Screaming Fast, Globally

Tigris Data, an S3-compatible object storage provider, announced its integration with Fly.io’s infrastructure, enabling globally distributed apps to leverage low-latency object storage. Built on Found…

Fly.io fixes `fly auth logout` to only revoke locally stored tokens

Fly.io updated the `fly auth logout` command in flyctl v0.4.106 to strictly revoke only locally stored tokens, removing unintended behavior where it revoked environment variables like FLY_API_TOKEN or…

Fly.io adds Managed Postgres support to Machines API

Fly.io’s Machines API now supports Managed Postgres (MPG) v2 clusters, enabling programmatic creation, forking, restoration, and deletion via new endpoints. The API covers backups, extensions, databas…

Pricing change detected for Fly

Pricing updated for Fly: - New tier: HIPAA Compliance Package ($99/mo)

Pricing updated for Fly: - New tier: Standard Support ($29/mo) - New tier: Premium Support ($199/mo) - New tier: Enterprise Support ($2500/mo) - Removed: Serious Support tier - Removed: Compliance Mad

Your Agent Speaks MCP. Give It a Computer.

Fly.io introduced MCP support for its Sprites disposable cloud computers, enabling agents to interact with Sprites via a structured protocol. The update includes safety annotations for operations, pro…

Fly reduces Corrosion broadcast bandwidth by 10x with compression and Plumtree

Fly.io cut Corrosion’s broadcast bandwidth from ~10 GiB/s to ~900 MiB/s by adding message compression and replacing its gossip protocol with Plumtree. Compression alone reduced usage to ~5 GiB/s, whil…

Fly.io Machines API adds egress IP support

Fly.io introduced egress IP management in its Machines API, allowing users to create and assign app-scoped IPv4, IPv6, or paired egress IPs via new endpoints. Machine-scoped egress IPs are deprecated …