Introduction to Aptible

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Aptible’s Story

Aptible began in 2013, when the HIPAA Omnibus Rule was taking effect, and digital health companies suddenly needed to prove compliance, with no clear playbook and no time to spare. Engineering teams could solve this themselves, but that meant time spent configuring AWS infrastructure instead of building product. From the start, our mission was simple: make it easy for great developers to work in healthcare. We built a platform where HIPAA compliance was the default, so developers could spend their time writing code and shipping features instead of configuring infrastructure. Now, a solo developer can launch a compliant app in an afternoon, and a twenty-person team can do the same. Over time, Aptible has turned the complexity of frameworks such as HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and GDPR into infrastructure and workflows that let teams spend less time assembling compliance programs from scratch and more time building products that have impact. Aptible has quickly become known as the platform built for health tech organizations from startup to scale. Healthcare isn’t the only industry that needs security built in by default. Every team running production software wants the same things: reliable infrastructure, room to scale without re-architecting, and direct access to people who actually understand infrastructure. Our mission has grown to match: make infrastructure simple and secure for every developer. That commitment hasn’t changed, but the environment around it has. AI is accelerating how quickly software is built and shipped, while increasing the ways applications can fail, expose sensitive data, or be misused. For healthcare and other regulated teams, this raises familiar questions around PHI, access, vendors, and security. But the underlying challenge is even broader: every team needs a way to move quickly without treating security as a tradeoff. The next chapter for Aptible is applying what we’ve learned in regulated industries to help more developers build and operate secure systems. The goal is to make the secure path the practical path, so teams can understand risk, protect what matters, and keep shipping with confidence.

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PaaS

Aptible is the Platform as a Service (PaaS) for secure web apps and databases: one platform for security and compliance, simple enough for a small team to adopt quickly, and built to hold up as you scale. You write the code, and Aptible ensures the infrastructure underneath it is reliable, secure, and compliant by default, rather than through configuration you have to get right yourself.

• Apps: containerized workloads on dedicated AWS infrastructure. Deploy in seconds with zero-downtime deployments, autoscaling, and centralized secrets management.
• Managed Databases: built to handle production data. Aptible handles patching, monitoring, and maintenance. Encryption at rest and in transit is on by default, backups run automatically, and PostgreSQL Databases support Point-in-Time Recovery.
• Metrics & Logs: infrastructure activity, application logs, and metrics, captured and retained for everything you run on Aptible.
• Isolated infrastructure: Dedicated Stacks give you infrastructure that’s never shared with another customer. Isolation by design, not by configuration.
• Secure & Compliant: HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and more, with automated controls and evidence collection built into the platform.

Manage all of it however you already build: the Aptible CLI, the Dashboard, Terraform, or CI/CD integration with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab CI, and more.

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Managed AI

AI is changing how software gets built, and introducing new risks along with it: models that process PHI, agents that call tools on your behalf, prompts that originate outside your control. Aptible is building a new line of products that hold AI to the same standard as the rest of the platform, with the access controls, audit trails, and compliance guarantees your security team already relies on Aptible for.

• LLM Gateway: one compliant API for 400+ models, with environment-level access policies, spend limits, full request/response audit logging, and HIPAA BAA coverage for every model routed through it.
• MCP Gateway: per-tool access controls and audit logs for every MCP server your team and agents use, shrinking the blast radius of a compromised agent or prompt injection attack.

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Support

Every Aptible plan and product is backed by security and reliability engineers, available whenever you need them, not just during business hours. All customers also get a Technical Account Manager trained in Aptible cost optimization, who can review your account and recommend ways to reduce spend at any time. Need help? Contact Support any time. Have a feature request? Our product team reviews every submission on our public roadmap. See what’s under consideration, or add your own.

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Aptible is built to fit into your existing development workflow, however your team already builds.