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Who is CockroachDB Cloud best for?
Quick fit guide: Who is CockroachDB Cloud best for, who should avoid it, and what typically forces a switch.
Sources linked — see verification below.
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Best use cases for CockroachDB Cloud
- Teams needing distributed SQL resilience patterns
- Systems where operational resilience and scaling path are primary constraints
- Teams where single-region database risk becomes unacceptable
Who should avoid CockroachDB Cloud?
- You are early-stage and a single-region Postgres is sufficient
- You want minimal complexity and fastest path to ship
- Your organization lacks the maturity to operate a distributed SQL model
Upgrade triggers for CockroachDB Cloud
- Need resilience patterns and scaling beyond single-region Postgres assumptions
- Need to reduce single-region database risk
- Need a scale path where higher availability is a hard requirement (not a nice-to-have)
Sources & verification
Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.