What is Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus enables the creation of on-premise Infrastructure as a Service clouds, with no requirements for retooling the organization's existing IT infrastructure or for introducing any specialized hardware. The Eucalyptus Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform is fully compatible with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) API, allowing support for both on-premise and hybrid IaaS clouds.

This compatibility allows any Eucalyptus cloud to be turned into a hybrid IaaS deployment, capable of moving workloads between AWS and on-premise data centers. Eucalyptus is compatible with a wealth of tools and applications that also adhere to the de facto AWS API standards.

Read our story and learn about the history of Eucalyptus.