One platform. Zero infrastructure boilerplate.
Mezusphere unifies traffic ingress, authentication, authorization, and routing into a single software layer. Your workloads connect outward via Warpgate, with no inbound networking, no reverse proxies, no API gateways.
Warpgate (inverted ingress)
Warpgate is the lightweight connector that links your workload to Mezusphere’s global edge. Your service never accepts inbound connections; Warpgate connects outward over mTLS.
Mezusphere terminates TLS, enforces authentication and traffic policy, and routes traffic at the edge before forwarding requests securely to your Warpgate.
No inbound ports
Warpgate connects outward over mTLS, so your service never needs a public inbound listener.
- Deployment footprint: your workload plus Warpgate.
- Origin stays private: no public IP, no inbound firewall openings, no exposed load balancer.
Identity stays at the edge
Authentication and authorization are enforced before requests reach your infrastructure, and the credentials Mezusphere issues never travel past the edge.
- Security model: outbound TLS 1.3 with mutual auth (mTLS); identity and traffic policy enforced at the edge before forwarding to Warpgate.
- Built in: passkeys, TOTP MFA, OAuth 2.1 + OpenID Connect, user directories, and per-route authorization; no external identity provider.
- The guarantee: tokens are stripped at the edge and verified identity arrives as two plain headers,
Mz-User-IdandMz-User-Email, that inbound traffic can never spoof. An automated check proves it on every deployment.
One repeatable layer
The pattern stays the same across clouds: workload + Warpgate, configured from the Console.
- Included at launch: routing, automatic TLS and hostnames, DDoS protection, WAF, usage metering, and spend cutoffs.
- One control plane: manage routes, auth, users, and spend controls in the Console.
Core platform capabilities
Security and performance are not afterthoughts. These capabilities are built into every Mezusphere deployment. See the full services overview → and explore the plugin ecosystem →
Automatic TLS + DNS
Public HTTPS certificates and hostnames out of the box, so you stop wiring cert managers and DNS glue.
Routing & traffic policy
Path-based routing, redirects, and CORS live at the edge with the same control plane as auth.
Authentication built in
Passkeys, TOTP MFA, OAuth 2.1 + OpenID Connect, user directories, and per-route authorization as first-class primitives; no external identity provider required.
Edge security
DDoS protection, WAF, and bot/scraper controls enforced before traffic reaches your workload.
Performance primitives
Modern HTTP handling and TLS 1.3 termination at the edge.
Usage & operational visibility
Per-tenant usage metering, connector and route health, and platform-vs-you fault attribution in the Console. Spend controls finalize with pricing.
Built-in certificate authority
Every connection inside Mezusphere is mutually authenticated TLS 1.3, backed by a private certificate authority built into the platform. Certificates renew automatically and revoke across the edge in seconds; you provision nothing and rotate nothing.
Verifiable by design
Every deployment runs a live check that credentials never pass the edge. Failure drills against the platform fleet gate each release, and every shipped image carries a software bill of materials.
What it replaces
Most teams assemble 6–10 services and vendors just to expose one workload. Mezusphere keeps that footprint to one outbound connector.
View the detailed stack comparison
| Capability | Traditional | Mezusphere |
|---|---|---|
| TLS certificates | AWS ACM / Let's Encrypt + cert-manager | Automatic |
| DNS | Route53 / Cloudflare DNS | Automatic |
| Load balancing | ALB / NGINX / HAProxy | Automatic |
| API gateway | Kong / API Gateway / Traefik | Built in |
| DDoS protection | Cloudflare / AWS Shield | Built in |
| Authentication | Auth0 / Cognito / Keycloak | Built in |
| CDN / caching | CloudFront / Fastly / Akamai | Roadmap |
| WAF | AWS WAF / Cloudflare WAF | Built in |
| Total services to configure | 6–10+ | Warpgate |
Common comparisons include Cloudflare Tunnel and ngrok. The difference is not the tunnel; it's the operating model: inverted ingress plus identity-aware delivery in one layer.
To be clear about where incumbents are ahead today: Cloudflare and Akamai operate far larger edge networks, Auth0 ships SDKs for nearly every language, and ngrok has a large developer community. Mezusphere's bet is structural, not feature-count: one layer, no inbound exposure, and identity that never leaves the edge.
Ready to replace your infrastructure boilerplate?
Deploy your code, add a Warpgate, configure in the Console. One layer replaces your CDN, load balancer, API gateway, auth provider, WAF, and DDoS protection. Read the docs to get started, or reach out at hello@mezusphere.com to learn more.