What is Cobalt Elastic VM?
Cobalt Elastic VM gives you Cobalt infrastructure with the knobs that matter exposed and the rest handled for you. Expect sub-minute provisioning, regional replication, and per-item billing. Built for engineering teams that would rather ship features than patch control planes. Cobalt operates it as a fully managed service: patching, capacity, and failover are handled upstream, while access controls and spend alerts stay in your hands.
Key features
- Sub-minute provisioning through console, CLI, or API
- Private networking with no cross-zone transfer fees
- Built-in daily snapshots with 35-day retention
- 99.95% or better regional SLA with service credits
- Live migration for planned maintenance, no downtime window
- Transparent egress rates published per region
Typical use cases
- Data pipelines that need predictable throughput at a fixed cost
- Disaster recovery sites kept warm without idle hardware costs
- Seasonal businesses that scale down aggressively off-peak
- Internal platforms serving dozens of product teams
Why Cobalt?
Cobalt publishes list prices for every region and never gates core capabilities behind enterprise-only tiers. Capacity is pre-provisioned, so the performance you benchmark in a sandbox is the performance you get in production. And because egress rates are flat, the bill at the end of the month matches the estimate you made at the start.
Getting started
Create an account, pick a region, and the default configuration is live in under a minute. The quickstart walks through your first deployment in about ten minutes, and the managed Terraform module turns the same setup into code you can review.
