Skybu
Your cloud, here at home
Skybu is a Norwegian platform for publishing apps with a database and file storage, as easily as on Vercel. It is owned and operated by Apps, runs on servers in Oslo and has no American companies in the chain.
Services
- Cloud platform
- Hosting
- AI agents
- MCP
- Security
Why we are building Skybu
Developers are used to publishing being easy: connect the code, push a change, and the app is live. The platforms that make it that easy are almost all American. The CLOUD Act lets US authorities demand data from American companies, even when that data sits on servers in Europe. For many Norwegian organisations, hosting has become a legal question as well as a technical one.
Skybu aims to give the same easy experience, but covering backend and database as well as frontend, with a supply chain that is Norwegian all the way down.
What Skybu is
Skybu runs web apps, APIs and databases. It supports Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Node/TypeScript APIs and anything that builds from a Dockerfile. PostgreSQL and S3-compatible file storage are included from the start.
The flow has three steps. You connect the code from GitHub or GitLab, or let an AI agent upload it. Every change gets its own preview link, so it can be tested and shared before it goes out. Then you publish to your own domain with https, and a change can be rolled back in seconds.
Data you can rewind
The database sits in the same data centre as the app and is backed up continuously to a second Norwegian provider. It can be restored to any point in time. Uploaded files are kept in a separate bucket per project, and earlier versions can be recovered.
Nothing is locked in. Code, configuration, database and files can be exported in standard formats such as an OCI image, a Dockerfile and pg_dump, and taken to another provider.
Norwegian all the way down
| Vercel | AWS in an EU region | Skybu | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owner | American company | American company | Apps AS, Norwegian |
| Subject to the CLOUD Act | Yes | Yes | No |
| Where the app runs | Globally, on American clouds | For example Stockholm | Oslo |
| Who handles the data | Vercel and its subprocessors | Amazon companies | Three companies, all Norwegian |
Apps run on dedicated servers at a Norwegian-owned provider with its own data centre in Oslo. Backups are encrypted before they leave the server and stored at a second Norwegian-owned provider in Stavanger.
The name plays on the sjøbu, the Norwegian boathouse where catch and gear were kept safe and close to home.
Built for code written by AI
More and more code is written by tools like Lovable, Bolt, Cursor and Claude Code. That means the platform has to set the boundaries, and Skybu does it in two ways.
Access. AI agents work through a CLI, an API and an MCP server, with keys scoped per project, environment and action. You can require approval before anything reaches production, and every change is logged with who made it.
Isolation. Every app and every build runs in its own microVM with its own kernel (Kata Containers). A fault in one app cannot reach the others, including while the app is being built.
Status
Skybu is in closed beta and free for the whole beta period. Companies are let in from the waiting list in small batches. Not in place yet: no SLA, one data centre and one server (a second data centre comes before launch), no autoscaling, apps handle sign-in themselves, and uploaded files are backed up at intervals rather than continuously.
