# CloudStack

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/cloudstack
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/cloudstack.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/cloudstack/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://apache.org
- **Slug:** cloudstack
- **Categories:** cloud-infrastructure

## Overview

- **Tagline:** Known for being significantly easier to install and manage than OpenStack while providing equivalent enterprise-scale IaaS features.
Source: Brand's website (https://apache.org) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Apache CloudStack is an open-source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. It is a Top-Level Project of the Apache Software Foundation and is used by numerous service providers and enterprises to power both public and private cloud offerings.
Source: Brand's website (https://apache.org) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - CloudStack Cloud Management Platform
  - CloudStack API
  - CloudMonkey (CLI)
Source: Brand's website (https://apache.org) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Free (Open Source)
Source: Brand's website (https://apache.org) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Global Enterprises, Telecommunications companies
Source: Brand's website (https://apache.org) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - OpenStack
  - VMware vSphere/vCloud Suite
  - OpenNebula
  - Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer)
Source: Brand's website (https://apache.org) · 2026-10-04

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