Create your monolayer account first. Choose a plan, then open your installation page to copy the AWS installer command for your account.
What you need before starting:
- Email address for the person who will own the monolayer account
- A password for signing in to monolayer.
- A decision on who should own the workspace and plan.
- Access to the monolayer installation page after sign-up. This is where you copy your account-specific AWS installer command.
Once you have these questions settled, feel free to open your monolayer app and follow these steps:
- Open monolayer
Go to monolayer.dev and choose Start for free. The button opens the monolayer sign-up flow.
The public landing page explains the operating model before sign-up: monolayer deploys full-stack applications directly into your AWS account, and the platform/control plane also run in your AWS account after installation. - Create your monolayer account
The sign-up screen asks for an email address, a password, and password confirmation.
This creates the identity you use to access monolayer. It is separate from your AWS login. - Select a plan
After signing up for monolayer, choose the plan that matches the way you want to start.
The plan controls monolayer product access. It does not move your application data or runtime workloads into a monolayer-hosted cloud. - Understand the boundary
Your monolayer account identifies you in monolayer, tracks product access, and lets you reach the setup and control-plane experience.
Your application infrastructure, workloads, databases, storage, logs, and cloud costs live in your AWS account. AWS remains the owner of the runtime boundary, billing boundary, and infrastructure control surface.
Your AWS credentials are not your monolayer credentials. AWS authentication happens separately during installation, through AWS login and your local AWS CLI session. - Open the installation page
Once the account exists and the plan is selected, continue to the monolayer installation page.
This is where monolayer provides the account-specific installer command. The command includes your license key, so copy it from your own setup screen before continuing to AWS installation.
aws --version
aws login
npx @monolayer/installer@latest <your-license-key>
Where what lives?
Inside your monolayer account:
Email/password sign-in, plan selection, setup flow, and access to the monolayer experience.
your AWS account:
Application workloads, databases, storage, logs, infrastructure resources, CloudFormation stacks, and AWS billing.
your AWS credentials:
Used through AWS login and your local AWS CLI session. They are not the same as your monolayer sign-in password.