What Cloud is
Hosting in the same account as your business, on AWS, without managing AWS.
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cloud.dashfordevs.com hosts the things your business runs on: your website, your backend, its database. It runs on AWS underneath; you never touch AWS.
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| Product | What you get |
|---|---|
| App Platform | Connect a GitHub repository; every push to your branch builds and deploys. Environment variables, custom domains, logs, deploy history, rollback. |
| Databases | Managed PostgreSQL. Connection details on request, trusted sources only. |
| Projects | Group an app and its database, see their activity together. |
| API tokens | Script your Cloud. |
Spaces (object storage with CDN), Droplets (virtual machines), firewalls, monitoring and alerts are planned and appear in the console as they go live.
Who can use it
Cloud belongs to an organization. Two permissions control it:
cloud:access: open the organization's Cloud and see its resources;cloud:manage: create, change and delete resources, tokens and billing.
Owners and Admins have both. Give a contractor cloud:access to look without touching.
Shared or dedicated
You choose per resource.
| Shared | Dedicated | |
|---|---|---|
| Apps | Run on discounted spare capacity, small sizes | Their own capacity, security group and encryption key; autoscaling |
| Databases | A database and user on a shared tenant server (never the platform's own) | Their own database server and encryption key |
| Price | Lower | Higher |
| HIPAA | Never | Eligible: AWS services under our BAA |
Every HIPAA-eligible option carries a HIPAA badge in the console.
Addresses
Apps get an address on Cloud's own apps domain (<name>-<random>.<apps domain>), never under dashfordevs.com, so your app can never share cookies with ours. Add your own domain with a CNAME and we issue the certificate.
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