Cloud

Ubuntu cloud

A working private cloud for just $9,000

Canonical’s Cloud Jumpstart: a turnkey OpenStack cloud in just five days.

Jumpstart your cloud

Or build your own for free

It’s easy to bring up an OpenStack cloud on Ubuntu.

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Ubuntu cloud in a nutshell

Cloud features

  • SAAS

    The sky’s the limit

    You can build any SAAS cloud app you want on Ubuntu. Want to be the next Facebook or SalesForce.com? Start here.

  • Service orchestration

    Cloud magic

    With Juju, you can deploy cloud services in seconds. Automatically scale up and scale down, monitor and adjust deployment parameters in real time and encapsulate expertise in re-usable charms.

    Find out more about service orchestration ›

  • PAAS

    The perfect platform for PAAS

    Ubuntu makes the perfect platform on which to build a PAAS platform or to develop your PAAS applications.

  • Guest OS

    Try Ubuntu in the cloud for free

    Enjoy an hour with an Official Ubuntu Cloud Guest on Amazon Web Services - for free.

    Try Ubuntu in the cloud ›

  • Public cloud

    Go public

    Ubuntu Cloud Guest is wildly popular in the cloud, beating rival machines images to claim the number one spot on all the leading public clouds.

    Find out more about public cloud ›

  • Private cloud

    Build your own IAAS cloud

    Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure is the easiest way to build an OpenStack cloud.

    Find out more about private cloud ›

  • Virtualisation

    Built-in virtualisation

    Ubuntu includes KVM, LXC and Xen, the top open-source hypervisors.

    Find out more about virtualisation ›
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The number one guest in the cloud

Ubuntu Cloud Guest is available with in-cloud updates on every major public cloud, free or with commercial support.

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Commercial support, enterprise tools

Public or private, Canonical can give you all the support your open cloud needs.

  Basic Advanced

Cloud Infrastructure

per physical machine and unlimited virtual guest images
  • Perfect for Ubuntu OpenStack private clouds running standard workloads
  • Tailored for more advanced workloads or mission-critical clouds
  from $1,050 per year from $1,800 per year

Cloud Guests

for up to 100 Ubuntu instances hosted by a public cloud
  • Available for Ubuntu instances on public Clouds
  • Amazon, Rackspace, HP
  $17,600 per year (or $175 per server)

Hyperspeed deployment for hyperscale servers

New Metal as a Service brings cloud elasticity to your bare metal.

Learn more about MAAS ›

Juju. Devops distilled.

Deploy cloud services in seconds with the service orchestration tool from Ubuntu.

Learn more about Juju ›

Bring your public cloud in-house. AWSOME.

Move workloads from Amazon’s public cloud to your private OpenStack cloud, quickly and easily.

Learn more about AWSOME ›