Key Features and Benefits of Using Umbraco Cloud

Discover some of the features of Umbraco Cloud.

Umbraco Cloud is a fully managed, scalable platform built to simplify and enhance the experience of building, deploying, and maintaining Umbraco websites.

Whether you're a developer, digital agency, or enterprise team, Umbraco Cloud empowers you to move faster, collaborate seamlessly, and stay secure by default while running on modern best practices.

This article highlights the most valuable features and benefits of Umbraco Cloud.

Fully Managed Hosting on Microsoft Azure

Umbraco Cloud hosts your projects on trusted Microsoft Azure infrastructure, ensuring:

• High availability and performance

• Data privacy and security

• Azure-backed reliability and global scalability

Smooth Deployments & Built-In CI/CD Workflows

Deploy faster and safer with a modern, built-in developer experience:

• Git-based deployments with environment-aware configuration

• Content and media transfers/restores between environments

• Built-in CI/CD pipeline support for GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps

For more information, see the Deployment, CI/CD on Umbraco Cloud, and GitHub Actions articles.

Faster Project Setup with Baselines

Umbraco Baselines allows you to use a base project as a template for creating more projects. This is ideal if you're planning on building multiple similar websites. For more information, see the Baselines articles.

Automated Upgrades and Hotfixes

Stay secure and up to date with automated CMS upgrades, including:

• Automatic minor and patch updates

• Security fixes and latest feature rollouts

• Upgrade notifications and version history

For more information, see the Product Upgrades article.

Security by Default

Umbraco Cloud includes multiple layers of security so your team doesn’t have to manage patches or infrastructure hardening manually:

• HTTPS is enabled by default

• Optional basic authentication per environment

• Environment-specific hostname settings

• Secrets management

• Support for external login providers (for example, Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0, Google, and so on)

For more information, see the Security article.

Multi-Environment Workflow

Every project comes with mainline and flexible environments (based on the plan), so you can:

• Deploy between mainline and flexible environments

• Test safely before going live

For more information, read the Environments and Flexible Environments articles.

Insights and Performance Monitoring

Get visibility into site health and performance:

• Application Insights for performance and logging

• Usage statistics via the Cloud Portal

• Alerts on downtime or performance issues

For more information, see the Application Insights article.

Unlimited Team Collaboration

Umbraco Cloud is designed for modern teams and agencies:

• Role-based permissions

• Organization and project-level user management

• Environment-specific access control

For more information, see the Managing Team Members article.

And that’s just the beginning. Explore even more features, benefits, and capabilities on the Umbraco Cloud Product Page and the Umbraco Cloud Pricing page.