What’s New with Connect Cloud
2024
December 2024
Connect Cloud Beta: New Features and Subscription Plans
We’re excited to announce that Connect Cloud has entered Beta, bringing expanded capabilities and new subscription tiers to enhance your experience.
More Compute Power
New plans offer greater levels of compute power for larger projects and sharing opportunities.
| Free | Basic | Enhanced | |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAM (GB) | 4 | 8 | 16 |
| CPU | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Active Hours* | 20 | 100 | 500 |
Note: Active hour limits will not be enforced while Connect Cloud remains in Beta.
Expanded Application and Document Publishing
You can publish unlimited documents on any plan. For applications, you can deploy up to five applications on the Free plan, 25 applications on the Basic plan, and unlimited applications on the Enhanced plan.
Private GitHub Repository Support
Users on Basic and Enhanced plans can now deploy content directly from private GitHub repositories. Refined GitHub permissions let you control which repositories Connect Cloud can access.
Private Sharing
Enhanced plan users can share content securely with private link sharing. Each link includes a unique, revocable token, giving you complete control over access.
More information
For the full list of entitlements for each plan, please visit the plans page on Connect Cloud.
November 2024
Standalone View
Now, when you deploy an application or document, you can view it in Standalone View by clicking the fullscreen icon in the top navigation bar.
This feature opens your content in a new window with a new URL that is free of the Connect Cloud logo and navigation bars, for a clean, distraction-free display.
Standalone View enhances content sharing by enabling native deep linking and external link redirects for documents, and the use of query parameters for applications.
When you view your portfolio:
- Clicking a content item title opens an admin view, giving you access to content management controls.
- Clicking the copy link icon copies the link to the standalone view of your content.
When others view your portfolio:
- Clicking a content item title takes them directly to the standalone view of your content.
- Clicking the copy link icon copies the link to the standalone view, allowing for easy sharing to the simplified view.
We hope this new feature makes sharing your work more impactful.
July 2024
Introducing Posit Connect Cloud
Posit Connect Cloud makes it easy to publish and share data applications and documents in a single cloud environment within minutes.
- Create a free Connect Cloud account at https://connect.posit.cloud
- Point to any public GitHub repository with the content
- Get a shareable URL to your application or document
Supported Python and R Frameworks
Connect Cloud supports a variety of popular Python and R frameworks. This enables you to build a collection of diverse applications and documents.
You do not need to install or learn any new packages to deploy to Connect Cloud. If your code works on your desktop, it should also work on Connect Cloud as long as you include a requirements.txt file for Python deployments or a manifest.json file for R deployments.
| Applications | Documents |
|---|---|
| Shiny | Quarto |
| Streamlit | Jupyter |
| Dash | R Markdown |
| Bokeh |
Feedback
Posit is committed to supporting open source data science, and Connect Cloud aims to be a central resource to share your Python and R work with others.
We encourage you to get involved with its development by reading the docs, asking questions in the community forum, and providing feedback.