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Platform overview

Summary: The Neon platform overview organizes all database management topics by area: access and collaboration, projects and resources, monitoring and observability, security and compliance, and operations and maintenance. Use this page to find the right sub-topic when you know the management area but not the specific doc.

Find information about managing all aspects of your database using the Neon platform

Neon is a full backend platform for apps and agents, not just a database. For an overview of every product, start at the Neon documentation home.

  • Postgres: Serverless Postgres with branching, autoscaling, scale to zero, and instant restore.
  • Auth: Managed Better Auth with sign-up, OAuth, and sessions. Users live in your Postgres and branch with it.
  • Data API: HTTPS queries with no backend code. Drop-in compatible with Supabase.
  • Object Storage: S3-compatible object storage that branches with your database.
  • Functions: Long-running serverless functions on Node.js, deployed alongside your database.
  • AI Gateway: One API for frontier and open-source models, built into your Neon project.

This page covers the platform's management and operations side: the account, project, and infrastructure tasks you use to run your Neon projects day to day.

Manage your account, your team, and who can access your project's databases.

Learn how to manage all aspects of your Neon projects. These topics cover the basics of setting up your projects through the UI (create, edit, delete) as well as practical guidance and best practices around managing project resources.

  • The object model: Learn about the Neon project and all its resources
  • Projects: Create and manage projects in Neon
  • Branches: Learn about database branching in Neon
  • Computes: Configure and optimimze compute resources for your Neon projects
  • Roles: Manage roles within projects and assign permissions
  • Databases: Manage your database from the Console, CLI, or API
  • Tables: Use the Tables page to easily view, edit, and manage your database entries
  • Integrations: Manage third-party integrations with your Neon project

Monitor your Neon projects to track system health and performance.

Learn how Neon secures your projects and data, and explore the security features available for you to use.

  • Production checklist: Guidelines to optimize price, performance, and reliability
  • Backups: An overview of backup strategies for Lakebase Postgres
  • Backup with pg_dump: Learn how to create a backup of your Neon database using pg_dump
  • Automate pg_dump backups: Automate backups of your Neon database to S3 with pg_dump and GitHub Actions
  • Updates overview: Overview of Neon platform maintenance and compute updates
  • Platform maintenance: Find out how Neon manages essential platform maintenance and critical security updates
  • Updates: Learn about updates for Neon computes and Postgres
  • Regions: Learn about Neon regions and availability

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