Welcome
@salmon-pharmacist-16987!
Thanks for the information on your use case that helps 🙌
You can currently use e.g. TOTP or WebAuthN (FaceId, etc.) for “passwordless” authn.
For SMS support we have 2 PRs open, see for more information:
https://github.com/ory/kratos/pull/1938
https://github.com/ory/kratos/pull/1941
So it should not take long for it to be available.
We currently support SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, CockroachDB for Ory Kratos, but if you are deploying using Ory Cloud you don’t need a backend database, just connect and use the Kratos APIs.
Also check out the
#cloud channel for more questions/answers specific to Ory Cloud.