
Lakshmi Kannan leads our Product Management and Design function at Cockroach Labs.
Generative AI
CockroachDB is Built for AI Agents
Today Cockroach Labs is announcing new capabilities that make CockroachDB agent-ready, giving AI agents a secure, structured way to work with your database.

Lakshmi Kannan
March 25, 2026
Product
The New CockroachDB Cloud Platform: Powering Your Entire Application Lifecycle
We’re excited to introduce our latest addition to the CockroachDB Cloud database platform: the new Standard plan. The Standard plan delivers the perfect balance of cost efficiency, scalability, and security, completing our vision for an all-encompassing enterprise-grade cloud platform.

Lakshmi Kannan
September 27, 2024
Product
Announcing CockroachDB Dedicated: CockroachDB-as-a-service
Today we announced the beta program for CockroachDB Dedicated, a self-service, fully managed cloud offering of CockroachDB. CockroachDB Dedicated delivers simple and easy to onboard distributed SQL, while also offering a secure and flexible experience. Whether you’re building a small application on a single node, a resilient application across multiple nodes or a multi-region application serving users all over the world, CockroachDB Dedicated is the distributed SQL database for modern application developers. “As-a-service” has become the norm for how developers consume software. A year ago, we announced a limited availability of Managed CockroachDB, which was the first step in our cloud journey, and an important milestone in our mission of Making Data Easy. Since then, we’ve learned a lot from our earliest users. CockroachDB Dedicated is the culmination of all those learnings, and we’re excited to now open up the offering to a broader audience.

Lakshmi Kannan
October 16, 2019