Basics
What is Startbase Cloud
A managed backend for every project: database, auth, storage, secrets, edge functions, payments, emails, jobs, multiplayer, logs, and usage, all inside the Cloud tab.
Startbase Cloud gives your app a production backend without leaving the workspace. Each project gets its own managed Postgres database, user authentication, file storage, and serverless functions, plus payments, transactional email, scheduled jobs, realtime multiplayer, logs, and security tooling. Everything lives in the Cloud tab of your project workspace, and the AI agent can operate all of it for you.
You rarely need to configure Cloud by hand. Ask the agent things like "add user accounts" or "store these submissions in a database" and it enables and wires up the right pieces.
Enabling Cloud
- Open the Cloud tab in your project and review the Enable Startbase Cloud screen.
- Pick a region for your backend (US East is the default; regions across the US, Canada, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South America are available).
- Click Enable Cloud. Provisioning usually takes 1 to 2 minutes; you can keep building and the chat gets a message when it is ready.
A managed backend's region cannot be changed later, so pick the one closest to your users.
Each project gets its own dedicated backend. If your plan's cloud project limit is reached, the Cloud tab shows an upgrade prompt with a link to plans.
The Overview section
Once active, the Overview section is the landing view: connection status, your project reference, and live counts for every section (tables, users, buckets, secrets, functions). Health tiles flag pending migrations, missing secrets, missing buckets, and missing functions so drift between your code and backend is visible at a glance.
Disabling Cloud
You can disable Cloud for a project at any time from the Overview section. Disabling is not deletion: your database and data stay intact and reconnect when you re-enable.