Managed databases

1. In cloud.dashfordevs.com → Databases, choose Create database.

2. Name it, pick PostgreSQL's version, choose shared or dedicated, and optionally a project.

3. Wait for Ready (a shared database takes seconds).

4. Attach it to an app, or open Connection details to see the host, port, database, user and password.

#How credentials are kept

• The password is not stored in our database. It lives in a secrets vault and is read only when a member with permission asks for the connection details; that request is recorded.
• Databases accept connections only from trusted sources: the apps you attach them to, inside the private network.

#Shared and dedicated

A shared database is your own database and login on a tenant Postgres server shared with other customers' databases (never with the DashForDevs platform's own data). It is the cheapest way to start, and it is never HIPAA.

A dedicated database is its own server with its own encryption key, and is HIPAA eligible.