What is Redwood Elastic VM?
Redwood Elastic VM is Redwood's managed compute service for teams that need predictable throughput without babysitting infrastructure. Provisioning takes under a minute, billing is per use with no minimums, and the same API works in every region. The service drops into existing CI pipelines and Terraform modules without rewrites. Redwood 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
- Drop-in Terraform provider and CloudFormation templates
- 99.95% or better regional SLA with service credits
- Live migration for planned maintenance, no downtime window
Typical use cases
- Production web applications with spiky traffic patterns
- SaaS platforms scaling from first customer to full estate
- Regulated workloads that require audit trails and data residency
- Internal platforms serving dozens of product teams
Why Redwood?
Redwood 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.
