# Automatically provision servers

Automatically connect SimpleBackups to newly provisioned servers on AWS EC2, Amazon Lightsail, DigitalOcean, Laravel Forge, …

This is the fastest solution to get your server configured to run backups.

### It saves you two steps in the backup process for new/existing servers:

1. Adding your server manually to SimpleBackups
2. Running the connection script on your server

### Some of its features:

- It does not require sudo or root access
- Figures out the username, IP address and home directory of your server automatically

### Some of the ideas of how it can be useful:

- Connect existing servers in bulk to SimpleBackups without having to add every server manually and running the connection script
- Use as a Laravel Forge recipe to add newly created servers to SimpleBackups

You can find below some screenshots on some of the platforms for demonstration.

## Laravel Forge

![Automatically provision servers screenshot 1](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/7fa7327e98d7f9e95c17.png)

![Automatically provision servers screenshot 2](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/1c01b66bc0b92f433359.png)

## Amazon EC2

When you are launching a new AWS EC2 instance:

![Automatically provision servers screenshot 3](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/eb91cc0e8fb75c75dcbe.png)

## DigitalOcean

When you are creating a new DigitalOcean droplet:

![Automatically provision servers screenshot 4](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/1f9118fea9cf514e01ce.png)

Need instruction for other cloud platforms? Let us know.

Don't hesitate to reach out if you need any help!