What’s New with Connect Cloud

2025

May 2025

Advanced Plan for Organizations

There is a new plan available for organizations and teams who want to collaborate securely on Posit Connect Cloud. The Advanced Plan offers sophisticated authenticated controls and collaboration features, including:

Enterprise SSO

Seamlessly manage user access with Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO). Connect Cloud now integrates with your organization’s identity provider, making it easier to onboard users, enforce authentication policies, and ensure secure access across your team.

Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

Gain greater control with new Role Based Access Control (RBAC). There roles are assigned at both the account and content level so that you can be confident with who sees and does what on the platform.

Share Internally or Externally with Ease

Gate content with email authentication. Whether you’re sharing a dashboard with an internal colleague, publishing a public report, or sharing gated content with a consulting client, Connect Cloud’s refined sharing controls give you the flexibility you need.

Learn more about new organizational functionality or contact us to start a conversation or free trial.

February 2025

Automatic Content Thumbnails

Showcase your work with ease. After publishing, we’ll automatically generate a screenshot of your document or application to display a thumbnail in your portfolio. You can enable or disable this feature from the Content Settings page. If disabled, the system will display a default thumbnail using the selected framework’s logo.

January 2025

Customizable Content URLs

Customize your shareable URLs to match your brand or project. All users can replace the random id included in the default sharable URL with a custom slug to share links in the following format: https://[account-name]-[custom-slug].share.connect.posit.cloud

Automatic Publish on Push

Keep your content up to date effortlessly When Automatically publish on push is selected, any changes pushed to your branch will automatically trigger a republish on Connect Cloud. This setting is toggled on by default when publishing new content. We’ll handle the rest, ensuring your latest updates go live instantly.

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.

standalone view icon

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

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.

  1. Create a free Connect Cloud account at https://connect.posit.cloud
  2. Point to any public GitHub repository with the content
  3. 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.