If you are building a Laravel application that handles Protected Health Information (PHI), you can now deploy HIPAA-compliant apps on Laravel Private Cloud. This was recently announced at Laracon US 2026, adding to its existing SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and PCI-DSS certifications.
A single HIPAA violation can cost business between $100 and $50,000 per incident, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights does not exempt small teams from enforcement.
Without compliant infrastructure, organizations are left building encryption, access logging, and breach procedures on top of a hosting environment that was never designed for them. With it, teams start from dedicated, audited infrastructure and spend time on the application layer instead.
Learn more about what the certification covers, what a Business Associate Agreement gets you, and what still runs through your own Laravel codebase.
What Laravel Private Cloud's HIPAA certification covers
The certification only covers customers on the Private Cloud plan, and not other shared infrastructure Laravel Cloud plans like Starter or Growth. Private Cloud gives organizations a dedicated AWS account, VPC, Kubernetes cluster, and compute nodes, with zero shared tenancy. You will not have to worry about noisy-neighbor risk, and no other customer's infrastructure is sitting inside your audit scope.
Laravel Cloud manages provisioning and verifies its security posture through third-party audits, which you can review at the Laravel Trust Center. You can also validate it yourself through your own penetration testing. Provisioning takes as little as a few days, after an architecture consultation and a custom quote. For details on if Private Cloud is right for you, contact us.
The technical safeguards Laravel Private Cloud provides
Private Cloud backs the security certifications with actual infrastructure controls, not just a badge. Some of these map directly to what HIPAA's Security Rule requires. The rest is hardening Private Cloud adds on top.
What HIPAA's Security Rule requires
Encryption. AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2 or higher in transit, covering web traffic, API calls, database connections, and backups. This is the baseline for protecting PHI wherever it's stored or moving.
Access controls. SSO and SAML support role-based access, so getting into your Cloud console never comes down to a single password.
Audit and recovery. Backups run daily and are encrypted, and disaster recovery and business continuity plans get tested annually, not just written down and filed away.
What Private Cloud adds on top
Isolation. Compute, VPC routing, and outbound IPs are all dedicated, so you can whitelist and audit traffic without worrying about another customer's workload sharing the path.
Edge protection. A managed WAF and DDoS mitigation layer runs through Cloudflare, filtering malicious traffic before it reaches your application.
Getting a Business Associate Agreement in place
HIPAA requires a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) whenever a third-party creates, receives, maintains, or transmits PHI on your behalf. It's the piece that turns Laravel Private Cloud's infrastructure into a compliant hosting for your specific application. Contact us to request a BAA before you deploy anything that touches PHI. Laravel documents the process in its compliance and security docs.
Why the hosting layer is only half the compliance picture
Signing up with a HIPAA-compliant host, even one with a signed BAA, does not make your application compliant on its own. The provider covers the physical and infrastructure layers like data centers, network firewalls, hypervisor patching, and hardware encryption. Everything else running on top of that, such as application-level encryption, authentication, role-based access, secure API design, and audit logging, is up to the organization to manage.
Teams often make the mistake of assuming the host "handles compliance" and skip that layer entirely. A compliant host gives you a secure foundation but you still have to build a secure application on it.
Put a compliant stack in front of every deployment
For teams on Laravel Private Cloud, it now handles all the infrastructure side of HIPAA compliance: a signed BAA, dedicated tenancy, and the audit trail the regulation requires. The application side is still yours. Encrypt PHI at the model level, enforce access with gates and policies, and keep an audit log that runs independently of your infrastructure logs.
When you are ready to move a healthcare workload onto isolated, HIPAA-ready infrastructure, contact the Laravel Cloud team about Private Cloud to start the BAA and provisioning process.