CrateDB Cloud
Setting up and scaling a distributed SQL database shouldn’t require a team of experts.
With CrateDB Cloud, you can deploy, operate, and scale production-grade CrateDB clusters with just a few clicks. Designed, operated, and maintained by the engineers who built CrateDB, it’s the simplest way to harness real-time analytics, without managing infrastructure.
Deploy seamlessly on AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud, and choose from multiple plans that fit your needs, from small development projects to enterprise-grade workloads.
Why choose CrateDB Cloud
- Fully managed by CrateDB engineers: all operations, updates, and monitoring handled for you.
- Instant deployment: create a new cluster in seconds and start querying right away.
- Elastic scalability: adapt resources instantly to changing data volumes and workloads.
- Zero downtime upgrades: stay up to date with new releases without interrupting availability.
- Global reach: run in your preferred cloud region across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Flexible billing: pay by credit card, invoice, or through your preferred cloud marketplace. Available on:

Flexible deployment options
CrateDB Cloud adapts to your infrastructure and compliance needs:
- Fully Managed Deployment: Operated entirely by CrateDB Ops engineers, perfect for teams who want a zero-ops experience.
- Hybrid Deployment: Deploy CrateDB Cloud in your own cloud account while retaining full control over network and data location.
Built for scale and simplicity
CrateDB Cloud offers powerful features to make your operations effortless:
- SQL Scheduler, table policies, and logging for full automation of recurring tasks.
- Embedded query console to explore data directly from your browser.
- Data connectors to import and stream data in real time.
- CrateDB Cloud CLI to manage clusters programmatically from local development to full-scale production.
- Automatic backups to ensure data safety and fast recovery.

Security and compliance
CrateDB Cloud ensures enterprise-grade protection for your data with:
- End-to-end encryption (at rest and in transit).
- Authentication and authorization for secure access control.
- Auditing and monitoring to track and verify access and activity.
- ISO 27001 certification, meeting international standards for information security management systems.
- SOC 2 Type 2 compliance on AWS and Azure, ensuring trust, confidentiality, and operational integrity.
Security isn’t an afterthought, it’s built into every layer of CrateDB Cloud.

Typical use cases
- SaaS platforms: Embed real-time analytics directly into your applications without maintaining infrastructure.
- IoT and telemetry: Ingest and query millions of events per second for instant insights.
- AI & ML data pipelines: Provide live features to AI models with scalable vector and time series data.
- Operational analytics: Power dashboards and alerting systems with sub-second latency.
- Hybrid architectures: Combine cloud aggregation with edge or on-prem clusters for global visibility.
Competitive pricing
CrateDB Cloud provides flexible plans designed to balance performance and cost-effectiveness for every use case:
- Development and test environments.
- Mid-size analytics workloads.
- Enterprise-scale real-time data platforms.
CrateDB architecture guide
This comprehensive guide covers all the key concepts you need to know about CrateDB's architecture. It will help you gain a deeper understanding of what makes it performant, scalable, flexible and easy to use. Armed with this knowledge, you will be better equipped to make informed decisions about when to leverage CrateDB for your data projects.
