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title: Introduction
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canonical_url: https://docs.blossom88.com/docs/intro/
markdown_url: https://docs.blossom88.com/docs/intro.md
summary: Blossom deploys your App and keeps it running, on Blossom Cloud or your own
  cloud account
categories:
- introduction
- getting-started
---

# Introduction

## What Is Blossom?

[Blossom](https://app.blossom88.com) deploys your App and keeps it running.
Connect a repository or an image, or tell your AI agent "deploy to blossom".
Blossom builds it, releases it behind health checks, and keeps it healthy:
it restarts what fails, adds Capacity when your App needs it, and shows you
what happened.

## Blossom Cloud or Your Cloud

Choose where your Apps run. They work the same way either way.

- **Blossom Cloud** is fully managed. Blossom runs the servers in its
  [regions](/docs/locations/), and you get one bill.
- **Blossom BYOC** (bring your own cloud) runs your Apps in your own
  [AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Linode or Vultr](/docs/locations/cloud-providers/)
  account. You pay your provider for the servers and Blossom for the platform.

## What You Get

- Deploys from source (Buildpacks, Dockerfile, static sites) or an image
- Health-checked releases with one-step rollback
- [Preview Environments](/docs/apps/preview-environments/) for pull requests
- Managed [databases](/docs/databases/) and [caches](/docs/caches/) with backups and failover
- Automatic [Capacity](/docs/capacity/) within your Location's capacity ceiling
- Domains with HTTPS, logs, metrics and Activity
- One [CLI](/docs/blossom-cli/) and API for you and your AI agent

## Getting Started

- **[Prompt and Deploy](/learn/prompt-and-deploy/)**: deploy with your AI agent
- **[Quickstarts](/docs/quickstarts/)**: deploy a working example in minutes
- **[How Blossom Works](/docs/intro/how-it-works/)**: releases, scaling and recovery
- **[Comparisons](/docs/comparisons/)**: how Blossom compares to other platforms

## Intro Docs

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