Dedicated Cloud overview
Give your project a real backend — database, user accounts, realtime, file storage, and server functions — fully managed, in a few minutes.
Dedicated Cloud is your project's own backend. Where a regular site just shows things, a site with a Dedicated Cloud can do things: store data, sign users in, update live in real time, accept file uploads, and run server-side code.
It's fully managed — you pick a plan, Genesis provisions everything, and both you and the AI work with it from there.
When you need it
You don't need a Dedicated Cloud for a normal marketing site, landing page, or blog. You do need it the moment your site has to remember or react to anything:
- Member areas and user accounts (sign up / log in)
- Feeds, comments, likes — anything visitors create
- Custom forms whose data you want to own and query
- Live features: chat, counters, dashboards that update without refresh
- File uploads from visitors
- Server logic: notifications, scheduled work, payments glue
Tip
Not sure? Just ask the AI for the feature you want ("let visitors leave reviews"). If it needs a backend, Genesis will tell you and offer to set one up — see Building backend features with AI.
Plans
Six tiers, from a starter for small sites to enterprise-grade compute. Every tier is a dedicated instance with daily backups:
| Plan | Compute | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | 2-core · 1 GB RAM | Small sites, up to a few hundred users |
| Standard | 2-core · 2 GB RAM | Growing apps |
| Plus | 2-core · 4 GB RAM | Busy production apps |
| Pro | 2-core · 8 GB RAM | High-traffic products |
| Scale | 4-core · 16 GB RAM | Data-intensive workloads at scale |
| Max | 8-core · 32 GB RAM | Enterprise workloads |
Current monthly prices are shown in the plan picker. Billing is monthly to your card; upgrade or cancel anytime.
Upgrading
Click the plan pill (or Upgrade) in the Cloud workspace header, pick a bigger tier, and confirm. The difference is charged immediately (prorated), compute resizes in minutes, and your database stays online — no downtime.
Setting it up
- Open Project Settings → Dedicated Cloud (or the full-width Cloud page from your project).
- Pick a plan and click Activate Dedicated Cloud.
- Pay with a saved card or a new one.
- Watch the "Setting up your cloud…" status — provisioning usually takes a few minutes.
- When the status flips to Active, your workspace opens with six tabs.
The Cloud workspace
| Tab | What you manage there |
|---|---|
| Database | Tables, rows, access policies, realtime, SQL editor |
| Auth | Your site's user accounts and sign-in providers (Google, GitHub…) |
| The emails your site sends for sign-up, password reset, magic links | |
| Storage | File buckets and uploads |
| Functions | Server-side code (edge functions) with logs |
| Secrets | Encrypted API keys for your functions |
You rarely have to build any of this by hand — the AI creates tables, policies, and functions for you when you ask for features. The workspace is where you see and manage what exists.
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