# Cloud Cluster Management API Advanced
The Typesense Cloud Cluster Management API lets you programmatically provision clusters, instead of having to click buttons in the Typesense Cloud Web Console.
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If you're familiar with AWS or GCP, a good analogy for what the Typesense Cloud Cluster Management API lets you do, is what the AWS/GCP REST APIs allow you to do: provision resources, manage their lifecycle, access control, etc. programmatically, instead of having to click on buttons in the AWS / GCP Web Console.
# What You Can Do with this API
The Cloud Cluster Management API lets you do the following operations on Typesense Cloud:
- Provision new clusters
- Terminate clusters
- Generate API Keys for clusters
- Update select attributes of the cluster (Name, Auto Upgrade Capacity)
- Schedule cluster configuration changes
Once you provision a cluster via this API, you'll then use the hostname(s) returned by this API to connect to your cluster's Typesense Server API directly to index your data and search on it.
# Architecture
Here's an architecture diagram that shows you how the Typesense Cloud Management API fits into the picture:
