ABOUT
Our Manifesto
Cloud computing became a $600 billion industry by charging developers 10× the actual cost of hardware. RAW exists to end that.
THE PROBLEM
The cloud tax is real.
AWS launched EC2 in 2006. Prices were revolutionary. Nearly twenty years later, cloud computing has become the most profitable business in tech — and the pricing reflects it. Developers pay 5–10× the actual cost of compute, storage, and bandwidth.
Egress fees. NAT gateway charges. Load balancer minimums. The bill is designed to be unpredictable. The complexity is the product.
Meanwhile, bare metal datacenters sell the same hardware — faster CPUs, NVMe storage, unlimited bandwidth — at a fraction of the price. The only missing piece was the developer experience. Cloud providers made deployment easy. Bare metal stayed hard.
RAW closes that gap. Same enterprise hardware. Same one-command deploys. A fraction of the price. No hidden fees, no egress charges, no surprises on the invoice.
OUR MODEL
The Costco of Cloud
Costco doesn't make cheaper products. They sell the same brands by stripping out the middlemen, running lean operations, and passing the savings to members. Vanguard did the same for investing. IKEA did it for furniture.
"The server costs what the server costs, plus a thin, transparent margin. That's the entire business model."
RAW does it for servers. We operate dedicated datacenters, automate operations with AI, and run with near-zero overhead. The result: enterprise-grade infrastructure at prices that don't require a funding round.
Same hardware. Better developer experience. Honest pricing. No markup games, no opaque pricing tiers. Just infrastructure that respects your budget.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
Four principles. Zero exceptions.
Transparency
Honest pricing, no hidden fees, no egress charges. You see the price, you pay the price. If we can't deliver value at transparent rates, we don't deserve your business.
Simplicity
Deploy in 13 seconds, not 13 steps. One command to provision, one dashboard to manage, one invoice to understand. Complexity is not a feature.
Quality
Enterprise hardware at indie prices. AMD EPYC processors, NVMe SSDs, NVIDIA GPUs, and 20 TB bandwidth included. No cold starts, no shared tenancy, no compromises.
Speed
Bare metal performance with no virtualization overhead. Your code runs on dedicated hardware — every CPU cycle, every byte of RAM, every IOPS is yours.
BY THE NUMBERS
The numbers speak.
ORIGIN
Born from a $7,000 cloud bill.
RAW started as an internal tool. We run Eulerpool, a financial data platform serving millions of page views. When our monthly cloud bill crossed $7,000 on managed platforms, we migrated everything to bare metal in four weeks. Same performance. A fraction of the cost.
Every pain point from that migration became a feature in RAW. SSL provisioning, server management, monitoring, one-command deploys. We built the tool we wished existed — then opened it to everyone.
INFRASTRUCTURE
What's under the hood.
Every RAW server runs on dedicated hardware in Tier-3 datacenters across five regions. No hypervisors, no noisy neighbors, no shared resources.
TEAM
Built by code, run by machines,
designed for humans.
RAW is an AI-native company. Product development, infrastructure automation, customer support, and operations are powered by AI systems — not a large human team with expensive overhead. This isn't a gimmick. It's how we keep prices low, ship fast, and stay focused on what matters: making infrastructure accessible.