# Laravel Vapor

Source: https://www.fortrabbit.com/hosting-guide/providers/serverless/laravel-vapor
Created: 2026-07-12
Reviewed: 2026-07-12


## About Laravel Vapor

Vapor is Laravel's own serverless platform, built on Bref and AWS Lambda. It wires up the AWS pieces a serverless Laravel app needs (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, SQS, RDS, CloudFront, certificates) and handles the Laravel conventions raw Bref leaves to you: asset compilation, queues, migrations.

Pricing is a flat monthly fee per organization, on top of whatever AWS bill the app runs up. It suits spiky, unpredictable traffic. One telling detail: for the steady default, Laravel now steers people to the non-serverless Laravel Cloud. That is Laravel itself marking where the serverless trade-offs stop paying off.

## Why fortrabbit

Vapor earns its keep when a Laravel app genuinely wants serverless and the team is happy owning an AWS account underneath. fortrabbit hosts the same app always-on. The filesystem, the queue workers, the scheduler behave the way they do on a laptop.

The bill is a flat monthly rate for the component booked. No AWS usage to forecast, no per-request meter, no surprise the morning after a traffic spike. Deploys are a Git push. For a Laravel app that is not chasing scale-to-zero, that is the shorter road.