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Eucalyptus is an open-source software platform that implements IaaS-style cloud computing using the existing Linux-based infrastructure found in the modern data center. It is interface compatible with Amazon's AWS making it possible to move workloads between AWS and the data center without modifying the code that implements them. Eucalyptus also works with most of the currently available Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), openSUSE, Debian and Fedora. Similarly, Eucalyptus can use a variety of virtualization technologies including VMware, Xen, and KVM to implement the cloud abstractions it supports.

Eucalyptus Feature Highlights:

  • Support for Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, and EBS)
  • Includes Walrus: an Amazon S3 interface-compatible storage manager
  • Added support for elastic IP assignment
  • Web-based interface for cloud configuration
  • Image registration and image attribute manipulation
  • Configurable scheduling policies and SLAs
  • Support for multiple hypervisor technologies within the same cloud

Benefits of Eucalyptus:

  • Build a private cloud that enables you to “cloud-burst” into Amazon AWS
  • Allows a cloud to be easily deployed on all types of legacy hardware and software
  • Customers can leverage the development strength of our worldwide user community
  • Eucalyptus is compatible with multiple distributions of Linux
  • Eucalyptus also supports the commercial Linux distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

Benefits of Eucalyptus for IT administrators:

  • Delivers a self-service provisioning IT infrastructure to end users that require IT resources quickly
  • Maintains existing infrastructure with no additional capital expense and reduces operating expense
  • Keeps critical data behind the firewall
  • Technology is an overlay to the existing hardware and software infrastructure, not a replacement
  • Avoids lock-in to a 3rd party public cloud vendor
  • Enables easy transitions back and forth between private and public clouds

For more information review the FAQs, Cloud Myths, and Glossary.