There are mainly two Core Concepts in Cloud State.

1. Origins

Your own data store could be a Postgres database, an S3 bucket, etc.

This is called an origin.

2. Tokens

Cloud State needs read/write access to your data store.

To allow Cloud State APIs to interact with your data store, you will supply the credentials to the service to Cloud State, and you will be granted a token.

Our servers never store your token, but instead work with stateless tokens.

3. Values

Values are the data that your store in your data store, via the token. The two main ways in which Cloud State operates on values are:

1. Reading them from the origin
2. Writing them to the origin.