> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.genie-app.de/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Genie Cloud: built-in backend for every app

> Genie Cloud gives your app a managed database, file storage, user authentication, and edge functions — set up automatically when you enable it.

Every app you build with Genie needs somewhere to store data, handle sign-ins, and run server-side logic. Genie Cloud is the hosted backend that provides all of that without any setup on your part. When you enable it for a project, Genie provisions a dedicated backend instance for that project and wires it into the app automatically.

## What Genie Cloud includes

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Database" icon="table">
    A fully managed relational database. Genie AI creates and updates tables as your app grows. You never have to write a query or touch a database config.
  </Card>

  <Card title="User authentication" icon="users">
    Sign-up and sign-in flows for your app's visitors. Supports email, anonymous sessions, and OAuth providers such as Google.
  </Card>

  <Card title="File storage" icon="hard-drive">
    Buckets for images, attachments, and any other files your app needs to store. Buckets can be public or private.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Edge functions" icon="workflow">
    Server-side logic deployed close to your users. Genie AI writes and deploys these when your app requires backend processing.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

Genie Cloud also includes **automatic backups** and usage tracking, so your data is always protected and you can monitor how your app is growing.

## Enabling Genie Cloud

Genie Cloud is available on all paid plans. If your project does not have it enabled yet, you will see an **Enable Genie Cloud** button in the Cloud tab.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open your project settings">
    From your project, open **Settings** and navigate to the **Cloud** tab.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Enable Genie Cloud">
    Click **Enable Genie Cloud**. Genie will begin provisioning your backend instance. The status badge changes to **provisioning** while this happens — it typically completes within a few minutes.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Wait for activation">
    Once provisioning finishes, the status badge changes to **active** and all resources become visible in the Cloud tab.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>
  Genie Cloud is included in all paid plans. If you are on the free plan, upgrading will unlock the **Enable Genie Cloud** button.
</Note>

## What the Cloud tab shows

Once Genie Cloud is active, the **Cloud** tab gives you a live overview of your project's backend.

### Status and plan summary

At the top of the tab you will see six summary cards:

| Card                | What it shows                                                                                               |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Status**          | Current state of your Cloud instance: `active`, `provisioning`, `deprovisioning`, `suspended`, or `deleted` |
| **Plan**            | The plan tier your Cloud instance is running on                                                             |
| **Tables**          | Total number of database tables Genie has created for this project                                          |
| **Edge functions**  | Total number of deployed edge functions                                                                     |
| **Auth users**      | Total number of registered and anonymous users                                                              |
| **Storage buckets** | Total number of file storage buckets                                                                        |

### Instance overview

Below the summary cards, the **Instance overview** section shows your project's connection details: the project URL, project reference ID, region, and the timestamps for when the instance was created and last updated.

### Connection keys

The **Connection keys** section shows whether each credential is configured — the anon key, service key, and database password each display a **Configured** or **Missing** badge. The actual secret values stay masked for security.

### Detected resources

Further down, the **Detected resources** section lists up to eight items from each category: database tables, edge functions, auth users, and storage buckets. If your project has more than eight in any category, a note at the bottom tells you how many more exist.

## Advanced options

At the bottom of the Cloud tab, the **Advanced** section contains a **Re-run bootstrap** button. Use this to upgrade an existing project to the latest Genie Cloud version. The bootstrap is fully safe to run at any time — it does not delete any data.

<Note>
  Onboarding and private mode settings now sync to your live Cloud instance automatically when you save them in the **Onboarding** tab. You no longer need to click **Re-run bootstrap** after changing these settings.
</Note>

## Rollback and Genie Cloud

While Genie Cloud is active for a project, you can't roll back to a previous version. A rollback only restores your app's frontend code — it has no way to undo changes already made to your live database, edge functions, or storage buckets, so restoring an older frontend on top of a newer backend could leave the two out of sync. See [Rolling back to a previous version](/projects/overview#rolling-back-to-a-previous-version) for how rollback works otherwise.