Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Payara Cloud is a fully managed cloud platform designed for deploying and running Jakarta EE and MicroProfile web applications. It simplifies the deployment process by handling infrastructure provisioning, server configuration, and container orchestration, allowing you to focus on building your applications.

Payara Cloud offers a range of features, including:

Payara Cloud is primarily designed for Jakarta EE Web Profile applications, which are typically written in Java. It also supports MicroProfile applications.

Yes, you can deploy your existing Java EE Web Profile applications on Payara Cloud without any modifications. The platform ensures full compatibility with Java EE 8 and Jakarta EE 10 standards.

Absolutely, Payara Cloud allows you to deploy multiple applications within the same namespace. You can also create multiple namespaces to further organize and isolate your applications.

Currently, Payara Cloud does not host database instances. You need to maintain your own database installation, either in the cloud or on-premises. However, you can easily configure your applications to connect to your external databases using standard Jakarta EE database connection mechanisms.

Payara Cloud can automatically scale your applications based on predefined rules or metrics, such as CPU utilization, memory usage, or incoming request rates. It dynamically adjusts the number of instances running your application to match the demand, ensuring optimal performance and resource utilization.

Yes, Payara Cloud provides seamless integration with other cloud services and platforms. You can connect your applications to databases, storage services, message queues, and other services offered by various cloud providers. As long as the service provides a HTTP API or supports connection mechanisms like JDBC, you can connect to it from Payara Cloud.

Yes, Payara Cloud prioritizes security and implements various measures to protect your applications and data. These include network isolation, encryption, secure access controls, and automated security updates.

Yes, you can invite users to share your subscription and assign each user fine-grained roles and permissions.

Payara Cloud ensures high availability by automatically distributing your application instances across multiple availability zones. In case of a failure, it can quickly recover your application on another healthy instance, minimizing downtime.

By default, your Payara Cloud data, including application binaries and user information, is hosted in Microsoft Azure’s EU region. You can also choose to store your application data in Azure’s US region when creating a namespace.

Yes, Payara Cloud offers built-in metrics and monitoring dashboards, allowing you to track the performance and health of your applications. You can also use the web-based management console to configure and manage various aspects of your applications.

Payara Cloud minimizes downtime during upgrades by keeping the current version running until the new one is fully deployed and ready. There might be a negligible downtime during the switchover, but all uploaded and undeployed application versions remain available for easy rollback.

The runtime size determines the resource allocation for your application instance. You should choose a size based on your application’s resource requirements, considering factors like memory usage and CPU utilization. Payara Cloud offers different runtime sizes (Small, Medium, Large, XL) with varying resource allocations.

A namespace in Payara Cloud is a container for grouping and isolating resources. A subscription can have multiple namespaces, and each namespace can host multiple applications. Each deployed application within a namespace is accessible as a context path on the namespace’s domain.

This is expected behavior. When you create a namespace and deploy an app for the first time, the full URL to the app needs time to propagate across the DNS system. This usually takes between 5 and 20 minutes. In rare occasions, this can take up to 24 hours.

After successfully uploading a new app version, its status will show as "configured" on the dashboard. You can then either configure it further or deploy it using the available options.

The previous versions of your app will be undeployed once a new version is deployed. The status "(Deployed)" indicates that they are not the currently active, deployed version.

You can start a 15-day free trial by creating an account on the Payara Cloud website. For security reasons, you’ll need to provide a payment method, but you won’t be charged until the trial ends. You will be sent a reminder before expiry of your trial.