# What Cloud is

> Hosting in the same account as your business, on AWS, without managing AWS.

Source: https://docs.dashfordevs.com/v1/cloud/overview · Topic: DashForDevs Cloud · Updated: 2026-11-07

**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.

## Available today

| 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.