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Zoho Catalyst

Zoho Catalyst is a serverless platform for building, deploying, and scaling backend applications with integrated authentication and storage. · Zoho · Compute

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Overview

Zoho Catalyst offers a simple serverless platform with built-in authentication and storage, ideal for quickly launching backend services and APIs with minimal setup.

Good fit

Use Zoho Catalyst to quickly build and deploy serverless backends with integrated authentication and storage, especially for small to medium projects.

  • prototyping
  • MVPs
  • student projects
  • internal tools

Not a fit

Avoid if you need more than 25,000 GB-sec of compute or 5 GB of storage per month without upgrading to a paid subscription.

  • enterprise-scale workloads
  • strict cost controls
  • custom runtime requirements
Quickstart · 5 steps
  1. Sign up for a Zoho account and access Catalyst Console.
  2. Create a new Catalyst project.
  3. Set up a function using the Functions module.
  4. Configure authentication and storage as needed.
  5. Deploy your function and test via the console or API.

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