Zero complexities
Highly simplified and packaged setup that drastically reduces management overheads
Vendor agnostic
Zero vendor lock-in, allowing for a bespoke, transferable setup.
Capable of massive scalability
Preferred stack for telecom clouds and has real clouds with > 50,000 hosts running.
100% user-driven community
Real user-driven community, ensuring usability over commercial interests. The Cloud Stack documentation is well structured and one can easily follow it and eventually get answers to their queries.
Orchestration & networking
Cloudstack has built-in orchestration and networking capabilities. Works with the most popular virtualisation platforms. Extremely flexible and easily extendable using plugins.