Cloud & Intelligence
Why Synap Cloud exists and how Synap Intelligence differs from running your own agent stack
This space answers two practical questions:
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Why use Synap Cloud?
If you do not want to operate infrastructure, Synap Cloud handles account lifecycle, pod provisioning, connector setup flows, and subscription operations so you can focus on your data and workflows. -
Why use Synap Intelligence vs your own service?
Synap Intelligence is the orchestration/policy layer designed for pod-native context, governed writes, and consistent agent behavior. You can still bring your own intelligence service if you want full runtime control.
Read next
- Synap Cloud — hosted control-plane value and boundaries
- Pod updates & policies — how updates are scheduled, manual vs automatic, and what “up to date” means
- Synap Intelligence — managed intelligence vs self-managed options
Technical internals (runbooks, deployment ops, internal APIs) remain in Team docs.