# Use Cases / Applications for Fly

**URL:** <https://community.fly.io/t/use-cases-applications-for-fly/204>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 12, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/use-cases-applications-for-fly/204 "2020-09-12T08:48:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![ahad.shams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@ahad.shams](https://community.fly.io/u/ahad.shams)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/use-cases-applications-for-fly/204/1 "2020-09-12T08:48:57Z")

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Hi - While I find the solution technically interesting, I am trying to understand for what use cases / applications Fly make sense VS hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, GCP etc.)

Do we have any examples?

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**Author:** ![kurt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/kurt/32/43757_2.png) [@kurt](https://community.fly.io/u/kurt)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/use-cases-applications-for-fly/204/2 "2020-09-12T15:21:07Z")

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We have people using Fly for all kinds of (sometimes surprising) reasons. Many people like the simple deploys, so they replace Heroku for cheaper/faster apps.

People also do computation close to their end users, like image generation, video/audio transcoding, etc. We know of one dev (at least) doing live Tensorflow lookups to detect abusive traffic.

We’re a pretty good place to manage a bunch of certificates too, a bunch of devs use Fly to generate certificates for their customer domains: [https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/custom-domains-with-fly/](https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/custom-domains-with-fly/)

There’s a fair bit of extra context and discussion about this here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616857](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616857)