Plotly Cloud: The Best Way to Publish Your Dash Apps

What good is a perfect data app if you can’t get it in the hands of your team?

To that end, we’re excited to announce Plotly Cloud. Last week, we launched Plotly Studio (read our launch blog) in Early Access to build the best possible data app workflow. But sharing is a crucial part of any project or workflow.

Now with Plotly Cloud, we’re making publishing and sharing Dash and Studio apps as frictionless as possible, with a drag-and-drop interface to upload apps, streamlined app management, and easy authentication and authorization for Dash apps.

To be part of the community of power users trying the product before anyone else does and shaping the direction of Plotly Cloud and Plotly Studio, sign up for our Early Access Program.

Plotly Cloud was designed from the ground up for Dash, and as a result it opens new doors for today’s massive community of Dash developers. Plotly Cloud is designed for use by folks looking to publish Dash or Plotly Studio apps for their own personal use, to distribute to members of a team, or to share with the world.

If you’ve built Dash apps but never had a good way to get them off of your laptop and into the real world, Plotly Cloud is designed to fill the gap, without requiring a steep infrastructure learning curve.

We’re really excited by the possibilities of providing a unified framework and deployment system for all the members of our Dash community. Available since 2019, our commercial hosting platform — Dash Enterprise — has driven business success among larger enterprise customers. Plotly Cloud opens the door to enable even more people to host world-class data apps. Dash Enterprise remains the premier solution for Enterprise hosting for Dash apps, enabling on-premise deployment for the hosting platform, and functionality including our Enterprise libraries and extensions for Dash, Workspaces, on-board databases and persistent filesystems, and more.

If you’re using Dash today but that work never leaves your computer, Plotly Cloud is a great way to get that work out into the wild. Grab your files, drop them into your browser, and you’ll have a link to your app within minutes. For projects built with Plotly Studio, just one click and you can publish from your desktop to the cloud.

Looking forward, we plan to introduce more features that provide the best data app experience for Dash developers working with Cloud, including more ways to deploy, sophisticated app and user management systems, and powerful app management tooling to make it easier to identify issues with your deployments and get them fixed in production quickly.

Plotly Cloud is about bringing hosting capabilities to everyone, and streamlining the ease-of-use and user journey through the product has been a priority. We want to make sure folks who have never deployed an app before can get started and be successful in minutes. 

We’re thrilled to be launching an easier way to publish Dash apps. Here at Plotly, we can’t wait to see the apps folks start sharing, the collaboration Cloud unlocks within teams, and the workflows we can enable with a streamlined experience between Dash, Studio, and Cloud.

You can learn more and request early access to Plotly Cloud.