Hosting on your own AWS or Azure account

By default Quiny hosts your app's backend, the API, image storage and scheduled jobs, on its own cloud, and your data lives in a Supabase database you can open. If your business already runs on AWS or Azure, or your accountant wants one cloud bill, you can host on your own account instead.

This is optional and most people never need it. Nothing about the app changes for your customers.

AWS

1. Sign in to the AWS console with an account that can create IAM roles.
2. In the console open Settings, then Connections, then AWS. Quiny shows a role trust policy with its account ID and a unique external ID for your workspace. Copy it.
3. In IAM create a new role, choose Another AWS account, paste the account ID and tick Require external ID, then paste the external ID.
4. Attach the permission policy Quiny shows. It is scoped to a single resource prefix named after your workspace: storage, a small compute service, a database if you move data too, and logs. It does not grant access to anything else in your account.
5. Copy the role ARN into Quiny and press Connect. Quiny assumes the role, deploys the backend into your account in the region you choose, and shows the endpoints.

Azure

1. Sign in to the Azure portal with an account that can create resource groups and assign roles.
2. Create a resource group named after your workspace, in the region you want.
3. In Quiny open Settings, then Connections, then Azure, and press Connect. You are sent to Microsoft to sign in and consent to the Quiny application.
4. Back in Azure, give the Quiny application the Contributor role on that one resource group only, not on the subscription.
5. In Quiny choose the resource group and press Deploy. Quiny creates the backend inside it and shows the endpoints.

Moving your data too

By default the database stays in Supabase. Ask Quiny to move it and it exports your data, creates a Postgres database inside your cloud account, imports it and points the app at it. This happens before the next update ships and takes a few minutes.

Costs

Cloud usage is billed by AWS or Azure to you at their rates. A first app on your own cloud typically costs a few dollars a month, and Quiny shows an estimate before deploying.

Removing access

Delete the role in IAM, or remove the Contributor assignment in Azure, or press remove in Settings, then Connections. Quiny can move the backend back to its own hosting first if you ask.