This section provides you with a comprehensive introduction to Lobster Cloud, the fully managed hosting environment for your Lobster Data Platform. Whether you are evaluating Lobster Cloud for the first time or looking for a quick reference on how the service is structured, this is your starting point.
Lobster Cloud is a standardized Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Lobster manages the complete infrastructure for you, including servers, databases, networking, security, monitoring, and backups. Your Lobster Cloud environment is a dedicated, isolated system provisioned exclusively for your organization. The platform is fully compliant with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Swiss data protection legislation, and is certified according to ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27018 and ISO 9001.
Lobster Cloud is available in four editions: ENTER, SCALE, ACCELERATE and TRANSFORM. Each edition is designed for a specific business scale and availability requirement. The TRANSFORM edition includes the High Availability architecture as standard. SCALE and ACCELERATE customers can optionally migrate to the High Availability architecture at additional cost.
The following pages in this section provide you with detailed information on each aspect of the Lobster Cloud service model:
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Definition of Lobster Cloud as a managed iPaaS solution, how the standardized hosting model works, what your subscription includes, available hosting regions, and how you access your system. | |
Overview of the primary advantages of Lobster Cloud, organized by category: zero-touch operations, security and compliance, reliability and resilience, performance and scalability, and cost efficiency. | |
Complete comparison of all four editions with system sizing specifications, performance reference values, the edition feature matrix, upgrade paths, storage extension packages, and the High Availability component overview. | |
Transparent breakdown of responsibilities between Lobster and you as the customer, covering infrastructure, security, software updates, network, monitoring, backups, and platform usage. |