Marmot Cloud

Marmot Cloud is the hosted version of Marmot. You get the same catalog described in the rest of these docs, on a hostname of your own, with the Postgres cluster, upgrades, backups and TLS managed for you. The data model, the query language, the plugins and the MCP server are unchanged, so everything else in this documentation applies as written.

Marmot Cloud adds three things that only make sense when someone else runs the server: access control per resource, secret stores that read from the vault you already run, and a workload identity issuer that lets pipelines authenticate to your cloud with no stored credential. Everything in this section applies to Marmot Cloud and Marmot Enterprise. Where a page covers something open source Marmot also has, such as pipelines, it says so.

Launch your first instance

Sign in, pick a region and a size, and have a Marmot instance answering requests in about a minute.

Get started

Features

• A managed instanceYour own hostname, an isolated Postgres cluster with backups, and TLS.
• Fine-grained access controlGrant roles on the whole catalog, a data product, one asset or a glossary term.
• Federated secret storesMarmot stores the address of a secret in your own vault, never the value.
• Keyless pipelinesA pipeline presents its own short-lived identity to AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.
• Single sign-onConnect any OIDC provider and map its groups onto Marmot roles.
• A private plugin registryPush your own plugins to your instance and run them like any core plugin.

The console and your instance

Marmot Cloud has two addresses.

The console at cloud.marmotdata.io is the control plane for your account: your plan, your billing, and the instances you own. You launch, stop and delete instances there, and pick up the initial administrator password. It knows nothing about the contents of your catalog and has no API.

Your instance is the Marmot server itself, at an address like https://acme.marmotdata.cloud. Every asset, pipeline, service account and access grant lives there, along with the REST API, the MCP endpoint and the OIDC documents behind keyless authentication.

You touch the console to create an instance and to change plan. Everything else happens against the instance.

Manage it with Terraform

Every change to an instance in these docs is Terraform, and that is how we recommend running one. Pipelines, secret stores, service accounts and access grants are resources in the Marmot provider. The cloud-side half of each, the IAM role or the federated credential, is a resource in your cloud provider. Declaring both in one configuration keeps a pipeline's identity and the trust that admits it from drifting apart.

terraform {
  required_version = ">= 1.11"

  required_providers {
    marmot = {
      source = "marmotdata/marmot"
    }
  }
}

provider "marmot" {
  host = "https://acme.marmotdata.cloud"
}

On your own machine the provider uses your marmot login session. In CI it runs as a service account. The UI is for reading: run history, the access panel on an asset, validating a secret store.

Differences from self-hosting

The catalog, the query language, the plugins, the MCP server and the SDKs are identical, and a Cloud instance can be swapped for a self-hosted one without rewriting ingestion. Three subsystems exist only on Marmot Cloud and Marmot Enterprise.

	What it adds
Access control	Roles granted on one asset, data product, glossary term or secret store, not only across the instance. This is what lets an agent hold a credential scoped to the assets it should see.
Secret stores	Marmot stores the address of a credential in your secret manager and resolves it before each run. Nothing is copied into Marmot or Terraform state.
Workload identity	Your instance mints a short-lived token per pipeline and per store. Your cloud exchanges it for access. There is no key to store, rotate or leak.

Next steps

• Getting startedLaunch an instance, sign in with the CLI, and start a Terraform configuration
• Connect your cloudYour first pipeline on Google Cloud, AWS or Azure, with no credential
• Pricing (opens in a new tab)What each plan includes and what it costs
• Security and isolationHow instances are kept apart and how your data is protected