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Scale software delivery pipelines in isolation without owning the runner fleet

GitLab Dedicated provides a secure, single-tenant GitLab instance managed by GitLab, which addresses challenges with agentic workflows driving increased pipeline volume. Managing a runner fleet independently becomes a significant operational burden for enterprises. To alleviate this, GitLab offers Hosted Runners for GitLab Dedicated, a fully managed CI execution SaaS. This service eliminates the need for customers to provision, patch, build, and scale their own runners, allowing teams to focus on shipping code. Hosted Runners ensure job-level security by provisioning isolated VMs for each job, which are deleted upon completion. This solution offers scalability and high reliability to handle fluctuating CI demands. The trade-off between cost and user experience in runner infrastructure is a persistent challenge; over-provisioning leads to higher costs, while under-provisioning causes developer delays. Hosted Runners shift this operational burden to GitLab, providing a compliant and secure runner infrastructure with data residency matching GitLab Dedicated. Key benefits include job-level security, secure network connections via AWS PrivateLink, autoscaling for predictable performance, and a 99.9% uptime SLA for high reliability. Consumption-based pricing using GitLab Credits offers cost visibility and flexibility. Hosted Runners for GitLab Dedicated is an add-on to GitLab Dedicated, available in various Linux architectures and machine sizes.