Education — enterprise stack.
For each requirement below, pick the option that fits your build — recommended first, then free and cheaper alternatives — or skip what your project doesn't need. Tap the info icon next to any requirement to see why it matters.
Hosting / Compute
Where your code actually runs and serves requests. Picking the right host affects speed, scaling, and how much ops work you do.Pricing & free-tier limitsVercel Enterprise $3000+/mo custom, $0.15/GB over, SSO, SLA / AWS ECS/EKS Multi-AZ Multi-Region Fargate $0.04048/vCPU/hr, Spot $0.012/vCPU/hr, $100-500+/mo per service + Global Accelerator $0.025/hr + $0.015/GB DT-P / GCP Cloud Run $0.000024/vCPU-sec + $0.0000025/GiB-sec, min-instance $0.10/hr / Fly.io enterprise multi-region $1.94/vCPU/region/mo + dedicated CPU $29/mo
Database (PostgreSQL)
Persistent storage for your app’s data — users, products, orders. The single most important architectural decision for most projects.Pricing & free-tier limitsAWS Aurora PostgreSQL Global $500+ Multi-Region: $0.12/ACU-hr primary + $0.12/ACU-hr secondary x2 + $0.20/M I/O + $0.10/GB-mo storage + Global $0.20/M replication / Neon Enterprise custom - autoscale up to 10 CU, active-active $120+/mo per region + $0.16/CU-hr + PITR 90d $200/mo / Supabase Enterprise $599/mo + custom + HIPAA / CockroachDB Serverless Free 10M RUs + $1/1M RUs + $0.375/GB storage / Dedicated $0.34/CCU-hr ~$250/mo
File / Object Storage
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsAWS S3 Multi-Region Access Points + Replication + MRAP: $0.023-0.026/GB-mo storage, $0.02/GB CRR, $0.09/GB egress (CF $0.085), Object Lock WORM no extra / Cloudflare R2 Enterprise custom $0.015/GB-mo bulk discount + jurisdiction control / Bunny Storage Enterprise $0.01/GB-mo + $0.005/GB egress volume / Wasabi $6.99/TB/mo no egress, $5.99/TB reserved
Authentication / User Management
How users sign up, log in, and are authorized. Getting roles and access control right early prevents painful rewrites.Pricing & free-tier limitsAuth0 Enterprise $1500-3000+/mo 1k MAU base + $0.07/MAU over + SSO/SCIM/MFA incl, B2B $0.20/org-mo / Okta Customer Identity Cloud $0.07/MAU + Enterprise Connections $0.08/MAU + $6/workforce user/mo + SCIM $4/user/mo + $15k/yr Identity Governance / WorkOS Enterprise $599/mo 500 SSO connections + Directory Sync + Audit Logs / Clerk Enterprise custom $500+/mo + B2B org billing
Video Hosting & Streaming API
Where your code actually runs and serves requests. Picking the right host affects speed, scaling, and how much ops work you do.Pricing & free-tier limitsVercel Enterprise $3000+/mo custom, $0.15/GB over, SSO, SLA / AWS ECS/EKS Multi-AZ Multi-Region Fargate $0.04048/vCPU/hr, Spot $0.012/vCPU/hr, $100-500+/mo per service + Global Accelerator $0.025/hr + $0.015/GB DT-P / GCP Cloud Run $0.000024/vCPU-sec + $0.0000025/GiB-sec, min-instance $0.10/hr / Fly.io enterprise multi-region $1.94/vCPU/region/mo + dedicated CPU $29/mo
Transactional Email API
Sending transactional email (receipts, resets, alerts) and sometimes marketing mail. Deliverability matters more than features here.Pricing & free-tier limitsBraze Enterprise $1000-2000+/mo custom, $0.001/email volume + $0.0005/SMS + $500/mo onboarding / SendGrid Enterprise $895/mo 100k-500k + dedicated IPs $30/IP + $0.0004/email over, SLA 99.99% / Postmark Enterprise custom 500k+ $0.0008/email + dedicated pool + compliance / MessageBird (Bird) Enterprise $1000+/mo $0.0015/email + Omnichannel
CDN / Edge Delivery
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare Enterprise $5000+/mo min, unlimited bw, 100% SLA, 24/7 support, Workers Unlimited $5 + $0.50/M req, Magic Transit $5000/mo, rate limiting Enterprise, Logan $0 / Fastly Enterprise custom $2000+/mo + $0.04/GB at scale + Compute@Edge $0.20/M + DDoS $0 incl / Akamai Enterprise $10k+/mo $0.02-0.08/GB + $0.01/10k reqs + mTLS $0
Secrets Management
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsdotenv + Vercel Env Vars Free $0 incl with hosting / Doppler Free 5 users, 1 project, 100 secrets, 5 tokens / Infisical Free 2 projects, 5 members, E2E / Doppler Team $18/mo 15 users ($7/user/mo over 15), 25 envs, audit logs + $10/user/mo over / Infisical Team $19/user/mo SSO + audit / HashiCorp Vault Cloud Standard $0.24/hr ~$177/mo 25k ops + $0.03/10k ops over / AWS Secrets Manager $0.40/secret/mo + $0.05/10k API calls + KMS $1/key/mo + $0.03/10k reqs / Premium: Vault Enterprise HSM $1.5k+/mo
Repo / Version Control
Where your source code lives and is collaborated on. Non-negotiable for any team or serious project.Pricing & free-tier limitsGitHub Free: unlimited public/private repos, 2000 Actions mins/mo private, 500MB Packages, 120 core-hrs Codespaces / GitLab Free 5 users, 400 CI mins / GitHub Team $4/user/mo 3000 mins + 2GB storage + required reviewers + env protection / GitHub Enterprise Cloud $21/user/mo 50k Actions mins + GHAS $5.75/user/mo Advanced Security (CodeQL, secret scanning) / Enterprise Server $21k/yr 50 seats self-host
Automated Backups
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsAWS Backup Vault Lock WORM + Cross-Region + Cross-Account immutable + Org policy: $0.05/GB-mo warm, $0.15/GB-mo cross-region, $0.20/GB-mo cross-account, vault $0 + Glacier Deep $0.00099/GB-mo + $0.025/GB restore + 7yr retention / Neon Enterprise PITR 90d + 1hr RPO $200/mo + cross-region $0.10/GB / Veeam Enterprise $1500/yr per 10 workloads + Cloud Connect $0.05/GB / Turso Multi-region incremental $29/mo
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Controls and protects your APIs — quotas, abuse prevention, and firewalls. Important once you have real traffic or many clients.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare Enterprise WAF + Bot Management Enterprise $5000+/mo min + $10k/yr Bot Mgmt Enterprise + Rate Limiting Enterprise + DDoS unlimited + Magic Transit + mTLS + Custom SLA + 24/7 SOC / AWS WAF + Shield Advanced $3000/mo per org + $0.60/M + $10/mo Bot + $500/mo ATP + DDoS cost protection / Akamai Kona + Bot Manager $15k+/mo
Caching / Redis
Stores frequent results in fast memory so you serve less from the database. Big lever for speed and cost.Pricing & free-tier limitsRedis Enterprise Cloud Active-Active Global $1000+/mo 5GB+ + CRDT $0.50/GB over + PrivateLink $0 + 99.99% SLA / AWS ElastiCache Global Datastore $0.04/GB replication + Serverless $0.125/ECPU-hr + backup $0.085/GB-mo / Momento Enterprise $1000+/mo $0.30/GB egress volume + $0.05/M ops / Dragonfly Enterprise $500+/mo global active-active
Search API
Lets users find things fast. A slow or missing search directly costs engagement and conversions.Pricing & free-tier limitsAlgolia Enterprise $2000-5000+/mo custom 1M+ records, $3/1k records over premium, $2.40/1k searches over, 99.999% SLA, 24/7, VPC / Coveo Enterprise $3000+/mo 100k docs + $0.40/1k queries + AI re-rank / Elasticsearch Enterprise on Cloud $1000+/mo 8GB RAM + $0.60/hr x2 AZ + storage $0.40/GB + support / Typesense Enterprise $2000+/mo SLA + private cluster
Assessment / Quiz Engine API
Interactive assessments, quizzes, or forms that capture structured input from users.Pricing & free-tier limitsLearnosity Enterprise $5000-10000+/mo 50k+ sessions + offline + auto-scoring + analytics + SLA + SCIM + $0.05/session over + Proctoring addon $2000/mo / Assessment Systems ASMT Enterprise $10k/yr 10k examinees + psychometrics / PSI Services Proctor $25/exam + API $10k/yr + integration / Questionmark Enterprise $50k/yr unlimited + on-prem
Background Jobs / Queue
Runs slow work (emails, exports, payouts) in the background so users don’t wait. Keeps your app snappy.Pricing & free-tier limitsTemporal Cloud Enterprise $1000-5000+/mo Namespace HA, 100M actions, $0.02/1k actions over, mTLS, 99.99% SLA, audit / AWS SQS Enterprise $0.40/M + FIFO $0.50/M + Lambda Provisioned Concurrency $0.10/hr + EventBridge Pipes $0.40/M / Inngest Enterprise $1000+/mo 20M steps + dedicated + SAML / Sidekiq Enterprise $1799/yr unlimited + Super Fetch
Monitoring & Logging (APM)
Tells you when things break and why. You cannot fix what you cannot see — this is how you keep downtime short.Pricing & free-tier limitsDatadog Enterprise $23/host/mo ~$30k/yr 100 hosts + $0.10/GB logs + $0.15/GB security logs + $1.70/1k spans + $5/10k Synth + $300/mo profiling + $2000/mo Database Monitoring / Splunk Enterprise Cloud $2000+/mo 5GB/day + $0.10/GB over + $15k/yr ES / New Relic Enterprise custom $5000+/mo + $0.40/GB + FedRAMP + BYOC / Grafana Enterprise $2395/mo 100 users
CI/CD Pipeline
Automates testing and deploying your code. Saves enormous time and prevents “works on my machine” releases.Pricing & free-tier limitsGitHub Enterprise Server + Self-hosted Runners license $21k/yr 50 seats + $5.75/user GHAS + 100k mins + runners $0 self-host + Buildkite Enterprise $15/agent/mo + Harness Enterprise $10000+/mo 10k builds + $0.10/build over + self-hosted + FedRAMP + BYOC / Jenkins Enterprise CloudBees $30k/yr
Uptime Monitoring
Tells you when things break and why. You cannot fix what you cannot see — this is how you keep downtime short.Pricing & free-tier limitsDatadog Enterprise $23/host/mo ~$30k/yr 100 hosts + $0.10/GB logs + $0.15/GB security logs + $1.70/1k spans + $5/10k Synth + $300/mo profiling + $2000/mo Database Monitoring / Splunk Enterprise Cloud $2000+/mo 5GB/day + $0.10/GB over + $15k/yr ES / New Relic Enterprise custom $5000+/mo + $0.40/GB + FedRAMP + BYOC / Grafana Enterprise $2395/mo 100 users
Staging / Preview Environments
An isolated place to test changes before real users see them. Catches bugs without embarrassing your production users.Pricing & free-tier limitsVercel Enterprise Previews global + compliance + audit logs + SAML $0 incl enterprise license $3000+/mo / Neon Enterprise Branching 5000 branches + read replicas + role isolation + SOC2 $0 + custom / AWS Amplify Preview + ECS Blue/Green $0.04/vCPU/hr + CodeDeploy $0.02/deployment + multi-account
LMS Interoperability API (SCORM / xAPI / LTI 1.3)
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsRustici SCORM Engine OEM Enterprise $75k/yr unlimited learners + SLA + support + on-prem + global / SCORM Cloud Enterprise $3500+/mo 10k regs incl + SSO + LRS Enterprise + 99.9% SLA + $0.20/reg over / 1EdTech LTI 1.3 Certified Platform $10k/yr membership + $20k audit + Moodle Workplace $110/yr per user min 100 users + 24/7 support
Video Transcoding & DRM API
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsMux Enterprise DRM multi-DRM Enterprise $2000+/mo commit $0.004-0.007/min enc volume + BuyDRM/Verimatrix $500-2000/mo + $0.01/license, SLA 99.9% + Forensic watermark $1k/mo / AWS Elemental MediaConvert Reserved + MediaPackage $0.0075/min + DRM PallyCon Enterprise $1000+/mo 10k licenses $0.005/license over + SPEKE $0.12/hr + Widevine license proxy $0 / Brightcove DRM $1500/mo
Certificate Generation API
Encrypts traffic between your users and your servers. Without it browsers flag your site as insecure and you lose trust and search ranking.Pricing & free-tier limitsPDF-lib + Puppeteer self-host $0 OSS / Certifier.io Free 20 certs/mo / Accredible Free trial 20 certs / PDFMonkey Free 100 PDFs / Certifier.io Pro $12/mo 250 certs, $0.04/cert over / Certopus $39/mo 500 certs + $0.08/cert over + 100 templates / PDFMonkey Pro $29/mo 500 PDFs + $0.06/PDF over / Moodle Certificate plugin $0 / Accredible Essentials $480/yr 500 certs $1.50/cert over + blockchain + API / Docupilot $49/mo 500 docs $0.10/doc over / Zapier $29/mo
Live Classroom / WebRTC API
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsLiveKit Enterprise $2000+/mo custom 20TB+ $0.05/GB over + $0.002/participant-min vol + Dedicated + HIPAA/BAA + SAML + SLA 99.99% + support 24/7 / Agora Enterprise $5000+/mo $0.30/1000 mins vol + dedicated + compliance + 99.99% / Daily.co Enterprise $500+ 500k mins + HIPAA + SSO + SLA / Chime SDK Enterprise $0.0017/min attendee + PSTN $0.015/min + SIP media $0.002/min + analytics
Payment & Subscription Billing API
Moves money — charges, payouts to sellers, taxes, fraud checks. Highest-stakes integration: get it wrong and you break compliance or lose revenue.Pricing & free-tier limitsStripe Enterprise Enterprise+ $0 + 2.2-2.6%+30c negotiated $1M+ vol + Billing custom 0.3% + Radar $5k/mo + Connect Custom $0.25/payout + Instant $0.50 + Capital + Treasury + Tax $0.4-0.5% + $199/mo portal + B2B SaaS discount + SLA + ICS $10k/yr / Chargebee Enterprise $1500+/mo + 0.6% over + $1.50/invoice + RevRec + $0.30/dunning + SOC1 / Paddle Enterprise $5% custom or $3000/mo flat + tax
Tax Compliance API
Moves money — charges, payouts to sellers, taxes, fraud checks. Highest-stakes integration: get it wrong and you break compliance or lose revenue.Pricing & free-tier limitsAnrok Free up to $100k taxed sales tracking + nexus 5 states $0 / TaxJar Free 100 orders/mo / Stripe Tax $0.5% per txn + $0.50/txn filing + $19/state filing, Dash $199/mo / Anrok Starter $399/mo + 0.5% of taxed sales over 100k + $50/state filing + API $0 / TaxJar Pro $19/mo 1000 orders + $0.15/order over + AutoFile $19/mo filing + $0.15/state/mo / Avalara Core $19k/yr + $0.30/return + sales tax $0.20/order / Quaderno Growth $99/mo 500 txs + $0.25/tx over + OSS $49/mo 200 tx
API Gateway & Rate Limiting
Controls and protects your APIs — quotas, abuse prevention, and firewalls. Important once you have real traffic or many clients.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare Enterprise Gateway $5000+/mo min, 100M+ reqs, $0.20/M reqs vol, 99.99% SLA, Logpush, PrivateLink, mTLS $0 / AWS API Gateway Enterprise $3.50/M + cache $0.24/hr + PrivateLink $0.01/hr + $0.01/GB + Shield Advanced $3000/mo org + WAF Enterprise $0 / Kong Enterprise $2500+/mo custom 10M+ reqs + ded support + multi-region + FedRAMP / Apigee Enterprise $5000+/mo $4.75/100k calls + $0.60/GB + analytics
Security Scanning (SAST, Dependency, Secrets)
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsdotenv + Vercel Env Vars Free $0 incl with hosting / Doppler Free 5 users, 1 project, 100 secrets, 5 tokens / Infisical Free 2 projects, 5 members, E2E / Doppler Team $18/mo 15 users ($7/user/mo over 15), 25 envs, audit logs + $10/user/mo over / Infisical Team $19/user/mo SSO + audit / HashiCorp Vault Cloud Standard $0.24/hr ~$177/mo 25k ops + $0.03/10k ops over / AWS Secrets Manager $0.40/secret/mo + $0.05/10k API calls + KMS $1/key/mo + $0.03/10k reqs / Premium: Vault Enterprise HSM $1.5k+/mo
Feature Flags System
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsLaunchDarkly Enterprise custom $15k+/yr min, $12/user/mo vol, 100k MAU + $5/1k over, experiment, migration, release guard, FedRAMP, dedicated, SLA 99.9% / Unleash Enterprise $1500+/mo 10M evals + $0.05/100k over + dedicated + SSO + SAML + 24/7 + audit WORM / Flagsmith Enterprise $1000+/mo 100M reqs + on-prem license + SAML + audit + SLA / Split.io (Harness) Enterprise $15k/yr
Webhooks & Event Bus Infrastructure
Lets external services notify you of events in real time. Core to integrating payments, KYC, and third-party workflows.Pricing & free-tier limitsSvix Enterprise $2000+/mo 10M+ events + BYOC + SOC2 + HIPAA + 99.99% SLA + dedicated + region failover + audit / AWS EventBridge Global + Archives + Cross-account $1/M + $0.20/M schema + $0.10/GB-mo + PrivateLink $0.01/hr + $0.01/GB + Pipes $0.40/M / Hookdeck Enterprise $999+/mo custom 10M+ + 99.99% SLA + dedicated + SSO + audit / Confluent Event Bus Cloud $500+/mo 10M+ + $0.10/GB
Analytics Warehouse / Product Analytics
Understands your users and supports them. Drives product decisions and retention.Pricing & free-tier limitsPostHog Enterprise $1000-3000+/mo custom 10M+ events + $0.00015/event vol + 7yr retention + BYOC + HIPAA + BAA + SAML + SLA 99.9% + support / Snowplow Enterprise $5000+/mo 100M+ events + $0.08/1000 vol + dedicated + SLA + 7yr retention / Mixpanel Enterprise $20k+/mo 500k MTU + $0.40/MTU vol + SOC2 + HIPAA + dedicated / Databricks + Snowflake $2-4/credit ~$200/mo + storage $0.023/GB-mo + compute
Enterprise Video Platform API (OTT)
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsMux Enterprise $2000-5000+/mo commit $0.004-0.007/min encoding vol + $0.02/min delivery vol + Signed+DRM + Multi-CDN + Analytics + SLA + $0.10/GB over / Brightcove Enterprise $5000+/mo 5k plays incl + $0.10/play over + Live $500/event + DRM $1500/mo + SSAI $2000/mo + player $0 / Kaltura CE OSS $0 self-host + Cloud $1000/mo starter + $0.12/GB delivery + $0.01/min transcoding + DRM $500/mo / JW Player Enterprise $1000+/mo custom + DRM + SLA / Cloudflare Stream Enterprise $1000/mo min + $2/1000 min stored + $0.50/1000 delivered
LMS Enterprise Platform (SCORM Cloud Enterprise / xAPI LRS)
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsSCORM Cloud Enterprise $3500+/mo 10k registrations $0.20/reg over + SSO + LRS + 99.9% SLA + dedicated + API + reporting / Rustici Engine OEM Enterprise $75k/yr unlimited learners + on-prem + SLA + support + $0 + Content Controller $12k/yr / Watershed LRS Enterprise $3000+/mo 500k xAPI stmts $0.01/stmt over + advanced analytics + BI / Learning Locker Enterprise Cloud $1500/mo 1M stmts + SSO + SLA / Moodle Workplace $110/yr per user min 100 users + 24/7 + mobile / Totara Learn $35k/yr 1k users + hosting extra + SCORM
Proctoring & Identity Verification API
How users sign up, log in, and are authorized. Getting roles and access control right early prevents painful rewrites.Pricing & free-tier limitsPersona Enterprise $5000-15000+/mo 10k+ verifs + $0.30/verif vol enterprise + database $0.03/verif + fraud graph $0.10/verif + SLA 99.99% + BYOC + SOC2 + HIPAA + dedicated + support 24/7 / ProctorU Enterprise $50k+/yr 5k exams + $15/exam vol + live + recording + API + LTI + SLA / Proctor360 Enterprise $100k+/yr 10k exams + AI + live + integration + storage $0.02/GB-mo + GDPR / PSI Services Proctoring $25/exam + $10k/yr platform + psychometrics
Enterprise SSO / SCIM / Directory Sync
How users sign up, log in, and are authorized. Getting roles and access control right early prevents painful rewrites.Pricing & free-tier limitsWorkOS SSO Free up to 5 connections + 1M API calls/mo / AuthKit Free 10k MAU + SSO free / WorkOS SSO Pro $199/mo 100 SSO connections + $8/SSO conn over + Directory Sync $8/dir over + Audit Logs $15/mo / WorkOS Enterprise $599/mo 500 SSO + 500 dir + SAML + SCIM + SLA + support / Auth0 Enterprise $1500-3000+/mo 1k MAU + SSO/SCIM incl + $0.07/MAU over + MFA $0.06/attempt / Okta Workforce $6/user/mo 1k min + $4/user/mo Lifecycle + SCIM + $4/user/mo + CIC $0.07/MAU + $2000/yr Identity Governance + Entra ID P1 $6/user/mo + P2 $9/user/mo + External ID $0.000075/MAU after 50k free
Multi-Region Active-Active & Global Accelerator
Runs in multiple regions for speed and resilience. Enterprise-grade reliability and the hardest to retrofit.Pricing & free-tier limitsAWS Global Accelerator $0.025/hr per accel ~$18/mo + $0.015/GB DT-Premium + $0.025/DNS query + Endpoint $0.015/hr + Health $0.50 per check / CloudFront multi-origin free + Lambda@Edge $0.60/M req + $0.000050/GB-sec + origin failover $0 / Cloudflare Load Balancing Free 1 origin + $5/mo 2 origins + $5/origin over + $5/1M queries steering + Geo routing + $0.50/health check/min over / Neon Read Replicas $15/replica/mo + compute $0.16/CU-hr / Fly.io multi-region $1.94/vCPU/region + $0.02/GB cross-region + Anycast $0 / Vercel Multi-region Enterprise $3000+/mo custom + $0.15/GB over + SLA 99.99%
Disaster Recovery & Cross-Region Failover (RTO/RPO)
Copies of your data so a bug, hack, or outage doesn’t become permanent loss. Cheap insurance every serious project needs.Pricing & free-tier limitsDependabot OSS Free $0 unlimited alerts / GitHub Advanced Security Free for public, private: GHAS $5.75/user/mo + $0.25/GB secret storage + CodeQL 3000 mins / Snyk Free 200 tests/mo + Open Source + IaC / Snyk Team $25/user/mo 500 tests $0.01/test over + Container + Code + $20/user/mo over / Semgrep Free 10 users + 2000 scans / Team $55/user/mo 5000 scans + $100/user/mo Pro + supply chain / Socket.dev Free 100 deps / Pro $20/user/mo + $0.02/dep over / Detectify $200/mo 1 app + $50/app over / Acunetix $4495/yr 1 target + $1495/extra / SonarQube Community $0 / Cloud $15/mo 100k LOC
WORM Audit Logs & Compliance Vault (SOC2 / FERPA / GDPR)
Stores API keys and credentials safely, separate from your code. Leaking secrets is one of the most common breaches.Pricing & free-tier limitsAWS CloudTrail Lake $2.50/GB ingested + 7yr retention $0.023/GB-mo + S3 Object Lock WORM $0 + $0.023/GB storage + Glacier Vault Lock $0.0036/GB-mo long-term + $0.10/GB restore + 99.99% immutability / S3 Object Lock + Versioning $0 + MFA Delete $0 + Governance mode $0 + Compliance mode $0 / Supabase AuditLogs Pro $25/mo 7d + Enterprise 90d $250/mo + SOC2 logs $250/mo + custom export $0 / Better Stack Log Vault WORM $24/mo 30GB WORM $0.40/GB over + 7yr retention $0 / Vanta SOC2 $7500/yr + $100/user/mo over 25 + FERPA add-on $2000/yr + Drata SOC2 $12k/yr + $3000 GDPR / Papertrail compliance $250/mo 50GB WORM + $5/GB over
Enterprise Security & Governance Suite (PAM, Bot Protection, PrivateLink, Status Page)
Tells you when things break and why. You cannot fix what you cannot see — this is how you keep downtime short.Pricing & free-tier limitsTeleport Community OSS $0 self-host + Cloud Team $15/user/mo 10 users + $2/conn-hr over + Enterprise $2500/mo 50 users + $15/user over + HSM + PAM + Session recording $0.10/hr over / CyberArk PAM $200k/yr base + $800/user/yr vault + PTA $50k/yr / HashiCorp Vault Enterprise HSM $3000+/mo + Boundary Enterprise $0.30/session-hr + audit device $0 / Cloudflare Zero Trust Access $7/user/mo + Gateway $7/user/mo + CASB $10/user/mo + DLP + Browser isolation $0 / Cloudflare Enterprise Bot Mgmt $5000+/mo min + Super Bot Fight $10k/yr + Magic Transit $5000/mo DDOS unlimited / Statuspage Atlassian $29/mo 100 subs + $1/100 extra + $500/mo Enterprise + Opsgenie $29/user/mo + PrivateLink AWS $0.01/hr AZ + $0.01/GB processed
How this enterprise education checklist works.
Each requirement below is something a enterprise education build typically needs. Pick one of the four researched options — recommended, free, cheaper or paid — add your own with "Other", or skip the requirement if your project doesn't need it. Nothing is mandatory; the plan on the right tracks what you've decided so nothing gets forgotten.
Your picks are saved in this browser automatically, so you can come back anytime. Options are researched per build level and refreshed as vendors change their plans — always verify details on the provider's page before committing.