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Laravel Cloud offers both MySQL databases and Serverless Postgres databases that autoscale with your needs. Amazon RDS is also available as part of Laravel Private Cloud. You can also bring your own existing database by configuring your connection credentials. Read more in our docs.

Yes, you can connect to any existing database with a public connection. For optimal performance, we recommend locating your database in the same AWS region as your Laravel Cloud resources.

Yes, enterprise customers have access to custom database integrations with AWS products like RDS, Aurora, DSQL, ElastiCache, and more. To discuss custom connections and pricing please contact us.

Laravel Cloud is available in US East (Ohio), US East (Virginia), Canada (Central), EU Central (Frankfurt), EU West (Ireland), EU West (London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Middle East (UAE). We’re actively expanding our regional availability.

Each new Laravel Cloud organization (regardless of the plan you pick) includes $5 in free usage credit, valid for 14 days. Explore the platform and build something you can ship live.

After your free credits expire, our Starter plan has no monthly fee—you only pay for what you use. Thanks to auto-hibernation, your application automatically scales down to zero when not in use, meaning you don’t pay for compute time during idle periods. Data transfer is included with your compute resources. View detailed pricing here.

No, you can have unlimited applications within your Cloud organization. All plans include custom domains.

While Laravel Cloud doesn’t have explicit spending caps, your costs are predictable because you have complete control over the compute and resources you provision. Billing alerts are also available, allowing you to get notified when your total spend reaches a threshold you set.

No. Laravel Cloud runs on dedicated AWS EC2 servers, providing predictable performance and costs.

Yes. VPC support provides enhanced security and networking control through dedicated network isolation and advanced DDoS protection services. To discuss VPC support and pricing please contact us.

You set your maximum number of application replicas, and Cloud automatically scales within those limits based on CPU usage. Unlike serverless platforms, you have complete control over your scaling limits, and you only pay for replicas when they’re actually running—giving you both flexibility and cost predictability.

On Business and Enterprise plans, you can also autoscale on a defined schedule. Set time-based min/max bounds per environment and Cloud scales before a known peak, not just in response to one.

Yes. AI agents can use the Laravel Cloud API to provision resources, trigger deployments, and manage infrastructure programmatically. This opens up new automation workflows that go beyond traditional scripting.

Cloud is a fully-managed platform that handles infrastructure, scaling, and maintenance for you, while Forge gives you direct server control and management tools. See our comparison guide for more information.

Cloud provides traditional server-based hosting with easy scaling, while Vapor offers serverless Laravel hosting on AWS Lambda and requires AWS Management Console experience. See our comparison guide for more information.

Laravel Cloud offers a simpler operational model, predictable performance without cold starts, and clearer pricing compared to Vapor. The migration guide explains why teams are making the move and how existing Vapor applications can be migrated.