Cobalt Fabric

The support engineer stayed on a screen share until our replication lag cleared. That is not the norm in this industry.

Their managed Postgres failover actually worked during our incident drill. Zero data loss, about 11 seconds of write pause.

We scaled from 6 to 90 instances for a launch weekend and the autoscaler behaved exactly as documented. No throttling emails, no surprises.

Their DDoS scrubbing absorbed a large attack during our biggest sale week. We found out from the post-incident report, not from an outage.

Billing is the real feature. Every line maps to a metric we can query ourselves, and the invoice has matched the estimate three months running.

Docs drift from reality: two Terraform examples reference removed arguments. Support confirmed and said a fix is planned. It has been a quarter.

Moved 40+ VMs over in a weekend. The import tool flagged every legacy cron job, and the bandwidth bill came in 20% under the estimate.

Reserved pricing is a flat percentage cut with no fine print. We compared three vendors and the math here was cleanest.