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title: Managed Index
description: Managed index using LlamaCloud
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LlamaCloud is a new generation of managed parsing, ingestion, and retrieval services, designed to bring production-grade context-augmentation to your LLM and RAG applications.

LlamaCloud supports

- Managed Ingestion API, handling parsing and document management
- Managed Retrieval API, configuring optimal retrieval for your RAG system

## Access

Visit [LlamaCloud](https://cloud.llamaindex.ai) to sign in and get an API key.

## Create a Managed Index

Here's an example of how to create a managed index by ingesting a couple of documents:

<include cwd>../../examples/cloud/chat.ts</include>

## Use a Managed Index

Here's an example of how to use a managed index together with a chat engine:

<include cwd>../../examples/cloud/from-documents.ts</include>

## API Reference

- [LlamaCloudIndex](/docs/api/classes/LlamaCloudIndex)
- [LlamaCloudRetriever](/docs/api/classes/LlamaCloudRetriever)
