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Cloud computing with Ubuntu
Cloud from top to bottom
Ubuntu provides tools and services for all your cloud needs
Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure
Build your own cloud infrastructure with Ubuntu - manage cloud workloads on your own servers and send identical workloads to the public cloud when you need extra capacity.
Ubuntu Cloud Guest
Deploy Ubuntu on demand with the most popular cloud providers whether it's a public cloud like Amazon Web Services, or an infrastructure you build yourself using Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure.
Juju
Ubuntu Cloud is more than just infrastructure. Systems administrators and dev-ops engineers can use Juju charms to deploy, orchestrate and scale services in the public, private or hybrid cloud.
Ubuntu Cloud Jumpstart
A private cloud in 5 days.
With an on-site Canonical engineer to get it done.
Jumpstart is a fast, low-risk route to deploy private cloud infrastructure on your premises. Compatible with the Rackspace, HP and Amazon public clouds, it costs just $9,000
Build your own cloud!
Breathe new life into your IT with Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure
Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure is at the heart of the current generation of public clouds, and the right choice for your private cloud to ensure smooth bursting of workloads from your cloud to public providers.
- Best-of-breed cloud infrastructure is built into every copy of Ubuntu
- Sophisticated orchestration tools help you deploy, manage and scale services in seconds
- Our regular release schedule means you can always stay up-to-date with the latest and greatest cloud applications and services
- Close co-operation between Ubuntu and OpenStack means that users can deploy new services quickly and easily
- Standards-based and widely supported, choosing Ubuntu means you'll never be locked into a single supplier
Works with all the most popular hardware
“Now we can serve 200 times the number of clients for a quarter of the cost.”Renen Watermeyer, Director of Engineering, KnowledgeTree
Optimised guest OS
Ubuntu is available on demand on all popular public clouds
Simply want to use a public cloud? Ubuntu Cloud Guest is the ideal guest OS on which you can build your services.
Canonical provides more images for the public cloud than anyone else, making sure there are up-to-date versions of Ubuntu Cloud Guest to use with no licence restrictions. That means you can always choose the very best software, hardware and services to meet your needs.
Of course, you can always use Ubuntu Cloud Guest on clouds built using Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure – in fact, we highly recommend it!
Try Ubuntu Cloud Guest online now
Experience Ubuntu Cloud Guest on Amazon EC2 for an hour. Free! ›
Ubuntu support in the public cloud
Having an effective way to support and manage your cloud instances has become a vital part of using public cloud platforms. Ubuntu Advantage Cloud Guest gives you support from the Ubuntu experts at Canonical, along with best-in-class Ubuntu cloud management
$8,000 annually (for up to 100 instances)
$800 monthly subscription fee
Service deployment magic
Launch scalable cloud services in seconds with Juju
Juju helps systems administrators and dev-ops engineers to deploy, orchestrate and scale services in the cloud quickly and easily. Key features include:
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New services in seconds
Access pre-written charms for deploying services in the cloud.
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Automated scaling
No more manual intervention. Greater elasticity.
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Improved control
Monitor, scale and adjust deployment parameters in real time.
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Collaboration
Create, share and modify charms with the Juju community.
Professional support from Canonical, the Ubuntu experts
Get peace of mind with Ubuntu Advantage
The Ubuntu Advantage subscription bundles a range of professional services from Canonical, such as legal assurance, problem resolution, systems management and deployment expertise into one easy engagement. Ubuntu Advantage for cloud includes you all the services you get for Ubuntu Server, plus extra coverage for your cloud infrastructure.
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| Price per server | Total per year | USD 1,050 | USD 1,800 | N/A |
| Base price | Total per year | N/A | N/A | USD 8,000* |
| Total per month | N/A | N/A | USD 800 | |
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| Optional extras | Premium Service Engineer | Optional | Optional | Optional |
*Up to 100 servers
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Smarter systems management
Simplify cloud management with Landscape
Manage Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure and Ubuntu Cloud Guest as easily as physical machines with Canonical's Landscape systems management tool. Whether you are managing services on an internal, public or hybrid cloud, Landscape helps you:
- Provision and de-provision Ubuntu Cloud Guest images in seconds
- Manage updates across instances to maintain security status
- Group machines to match your needs
- Create, configure and take snapshots of the storage lifecycle of EBS volumes
- Assign costs across the business with resource group management
- Allocate elastic IP addresses
$1,050 per cloud server, per year
for Ubuntu Advantage, including Landscape
Open Source: the fabric of the future
True computing elasticity
Open source lies at the heart of some of the most popular cloud technologies in use in businesses around the world. But what makes open source and Ubuntu such a good fit for the cloud?
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No proprietary lock-in
The open-source community works to de facto cloud standards so you can easily move workloads between platforms when you want.
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Best-of-breed technology
Open-source experts are at the forefront of the latest cloud projects. That means you can get the best free software, engineered specifically for the cloud, regularly updated, and fully supported.
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Align the cloud to specific business needs
With Ubuntu you can access all areas. You get to see and modify all the code you want so you can support specific functions and workflows, and build a cloud that meets the needs of your business.
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Scalability without restrictions
Ubuntu is free to download and configure, which means you can scale your services without paying licence fees – true computing elasticity.
A thriving community
Exchange expertise and ideas with thousands of other IT professionals
Want to talk to other Ubuntu users straightaway? Share ideas and get advice and help from our large, active community of IT professionals.
As a community, we set high standards for friendliness and tolerance, we welcome your questions and contributions!
