Apache CloudStack is an open-source infrastructure-as-a-service platform for deploying and managing large networks of virtual machines as private, hybrid, or public clouds. Governed by the Apache Software Foundation and licensed under Apache 2.0, it is hypervisor-agnostic, supporting KVM, VMware vSphere, XenServer, XCP-ng, and Hyper-V. It includes a web UI and API, multi-tenant networking, live migration, and host monitoring with high-availability restarts. Service providers use it to offer public cloud services and enterprises to run on-premises clouds. The software is free; commercial support is available from third parties such as ShapeBlue.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2010
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Private cloud / virtualization
- Open-source
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Hypervisor
- KVM / VMware / Xen
- Hyperconverged
- No
- Management UI
- Yes
- Live migration
- Yes
- HA clustering
- Yes
- Free tier
- Yes: Free and open source (Apache 2.0); paid support from third-party vendors.