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| The Akka Cloud Platform enables developers to quickly build and deploy cloud-native Microservices on their cloud service provider of choice. It provides frameworks and runtimes for building cloud-native applications that easily integrate with other services in your chosen ecosystem. |
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| An Akka Cloud Platform subscription includes access to Lightbend Telemetry, Lightbend Academy, and basic support. Through the Akka Operator, the Akka Cloud Platform provides the following high level features: |
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| * convenient deployment without the need to define detailed Kubernetes manifests |
| * integration with Akka Cluster Bootstrap |
| * integration with Akka Management health checks |
| * integration with Relational Databases |
| * integration with Cassandra |
| * integration with Kafka |
| * support for gRPC and HTTP services and internet-facing ingress |
| * insights into deployment status |
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| The Akka Cloud Platform is currently available in xref:gcp-install.adoc[Google Cloud Platform (GCP)] and xref:aws-index.adoc[Amazon Web Services (AWS)] |
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| == Getting Started with Cloud Deployment |
| Before you can get started with cloud deployment you should: |
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| . Determine which platform you will be using (Google Cloud Platform, for example). |
| . Have an active account with your chosen platform. |
| . Subscribe to the Akka Cloud Platform with xref:gcp-install.adoc[GCP] or xref:aws-index.adoc[AWS]. |
| . Set up your xref:microservices-tutorial:dev-env.adoc[environment]. |
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| Once you have these in hand review the xref:cloud-deployment.adoc[] page and then proceed to the section appropriate to your platform. |
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| * xref:gcp-install.adoc[] |
| * xref:aws-install.adoc[] |
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