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

# Welcome to Laravel Cloud

> The official infrastructure and deployment platform for Laravel, with support for Symfony.

Laravel Cloud is a fully managed infrastructure platform for deploying and scaling web applications, with built-in solutions for web and worker compute, relational databases, key-value storage, managed queues, file and object storage, and more.

| Framework | Version        | Runtime  |
| --------- | -------------- | -------- |
| Laravel   | 9.x or greater | PHP 8.2+ |
| Symfony   | 7.4 LTS or 8.x | PHP 8.2+ |

## Unmatched developer experience

Laravel Cloud is the only fully managed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) obsessively optimized for shipping and scaling your applications.

* **No application or server configuration necessary.** Most applications built on supported frameworks can be [deployed to Laravel Cloud](/deployments) without any additional changes to your application's architecture. Additionally, no server management experience is required when deploying to Laravel Cloud.

* **Fully managed MySQL / Postgres databases and Redis-compatible key-value storage.** You can provision and manage [MySQL](/resources/databases/laravel-mysql) and [Postgres](/resources/databases/postgres) databases directly from the Laravel Cloud dashboard. [Redis-compatible key-value storage](/resources/caches/valkey) may also be provisioned in seconds.

* **Managed queues.** Laravel and Symfony applications can use [fully managed queues](/queues#managed-queues) with dedicated workers that automatically scale based on the work waiting to be processed, including scaling to zero when idle, with a built-in dashboard for retrying failed jobs.

* **Zero downtime deployments and scaling.** Laravel Cloud automatically rolls out [changes to your application](/deployments) without downtime. In addition, [scaling your application's infrastructure](/compute#autoscaling) can be done at any time without interrupting your users.

* **Scale to Zero.** Laravel Cloud can [put your environment to sleep](/compute#scale-to-zero) when it is idle so you are not charged for compute, then wake it in under 500 milliseconds when a request arrives. Managed queues run on dedicated workers and continue to process jobs while your environment sleeps. For Laravel applications, scheduled tasks also continue to run while the environment sleeps; Symfony scheduled tasks should run on an always-awake worker cluster.

* **Preview environments.** Automatically provision a [fully isolated environment for every pull request](/preview-environments), then tear it down when the pull request is merged or closed, so your team can review changes in a production-like environment before they ship.

* **Automatic TLS and load balancing.** All applications running on Laravel Cloud automatically receive [TLS certificates](/domains), which are also automatically updated. Incoming traffic to your application is also automatically [distributed across your available application replicas](/network#cloud-compute-network).

* **Cloud Edge Network.** Laravel Cloud partners with Cloudflare to offer a [globally distributed caching and security network at the edge](/network#cloud-edge-network). This edge network provides DDoS protection and edge asset caching to all applications running on Laravel Cloud.

* **Monitoring and logs.** Basic [infrastructure metrics](/compute#compute-metrics), such as CPU and memory usage, are available via the Laravel Cloud dashboard. You may also easily [view and search your application's logs](/logs).

## Next steps

We can't wait to see what you ship on Laravel Cloud. When you're ready to dive in, check out our [quickstart documentation](/quickstart).

## Prerequisites

Laravel Cloud supports the PHP runtime for Laravel and Symfony applications. PHP 8.2 through 8.5 is supported. Laravel applications require Laravel 9.x or greater; Symfony applications require Symfony 7.4 LTS or 8.x.