Clever Cloud

Cloud software technologies

Always-on orchestration

A state-of-the-art distributed orchestration model for best-in-class resiliency. Watch it place workloads across five availability zones, lose a zone, and rebalance.

Cloud is Software

Software-driven vertical integration is crucial to security, resilience and performance.

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01 Region federationworld wide control planeParisMadridRome02 Regionregional failure domainAZ aAZ bAZ cAZ dAZ e03 Availability zoneisolated power & network04 Rackrack-aware placement05 Serverbare-metal hostCPU 0CPU 106 NUMA contextCPU & memory pinning07 KVM · VMhardware virtualization08 Containersnamespaces · cgroups09 Landlockkernel sandbox (LSM)10 Serverlesson-demand functionsPLACEMENTISOLATION

One service catalog, any hardware

Service catalog of a unified multi-cloud platform. Point at a service to see what it does.

Managed services

Axo Core

control plane · orchestrator
StorageNetworking & VPC
DEPLOYMENT
CloudEdge
Private cloud
On premisesAir gap
HARDWARE
Clever Cloud hardware
2CRSI
Bull
OVHcloud OPCP
BYO hardware

Clever Cloud technology, built in

The technologies that run Clever Cloud in production, inherited by every deployment.

CONTROL PLANE

Axo Core

The core platform of our cloud and edge offers, packaging the control plane for hybrid and multi-cloud.

  • Federated control plane
  • Hybrid & multi-cloud
  • Cloud · edge · on prem · air gap
  • Standard & custom releases
NETWORK

Crossbow

Network virtualization powering our VPCs.

  • Encrypted overlays
  • VPC primitives
SERVERLESS

Cloud Functions

Powered by WSR®, our Wasm SVM Runtime.

  • Wasm SVM Runtime
  • High-performance workers
  • Best-in-class security
KUBERNETES

Clever K8S Engine

CKE is engineered for scale and resilience.

6 pods
  • Purpose-built etcd layer
  • Scalable
  • Resilient
IDENTITYopen source

Biscuit

Authorization tokens · Eclipse Foundation.

allow
  • Decentralized verification
  • Offline attenuation
  • Policy enforcement
TRAFFIC LOAD BALANCINGopen source

Sōzu

High-performance HTTP reverse proxy.

  • High-frequency hot reload
  • Safe memory management
CONTROL PLANE

Axo Core

The core platform of our cloud and edge offers.

  • Federated control plane
  • Hybrid & multi-cloud
NETWORK

Crossbow

Network virtualization powering our VPCs.

  • Encrypted overlays
  • VPC primitives
SERVERLESS

Cloud Functions

Powered by WSR®, our Wasm SVM Runtime.

  • High-performance workers
  • Best-in-class security
KUBERNETES

Clever K8S Engine

Engineered for scale and resilience.

  • Purpose-built etcd layer
  • Scalable · resilient
IDENTITY

Biscuit

Open-source authorization tokens · Eclipse Foundation.

  • Decentralized verification
  • Offline attenuation
TRAFFIC LOAD BALANCING

Sōzu

Open-source high-performance HTTP reverse proxy.

  • High-frequency hot reload
  • Safe memory management

Versatile deployment, anywhere

One build, shipped as standard releases for our regions and custom releases for customer sites.

AXO

The full Clever Cloud platform, packaged as one distribution: same services, same operating model.

+ public cloud extension

01 · CLOUD

Clever Cloud regions

Multi-region federation, fully managed, usage-based.

runs on

Clever Cloud datacenters

02 · PRIVATE CLOUD

Dedicated regions

Isolated capacity for one organization, same managed services.

runs on

[Dedicated infrastructure / partner]

03 · ON PREMISES

Your datacenter

Installed by our team or yours, on the hardware you choose.

runs on

BYO hardware · 2CRSI · Bull · OPCP

04 · AIR-GAPPED

Disconnected sites

No outbound link: releases, images and updates delivered offline.

runs on

Offline release delivery

Connected · operated for you
Disconnected · under your control

Built with Deterministic Simulation Testing

Catch bugs before going live. From traffic to database, we run the whole system in a simulator to break everything.

A simulated world

Network, disk, clock and scheduler are simulated. Real code runs deterministically on our critical components (traffic, compute, orchestration, serverless and messaging) to ensure the best operational experience.

Faults, on purpose

Crashes, partitions, disk errors and clock skew, injected far more often than production ever would.

Every bug replays

A failure is just a seed: replay it bit for bit, fix it, keep it as a regression test.

0simulations run
0bugs found and fixed

Exclusive serverless technology

Materia: one serverless SDK on top of FoundationDB, exposed through commonly used protocols to remove vendor lock-in.

RedisPostgreSQLKafka
Record / Table
Log / Event

Materia Serverless SDK · on FoundationDB

Incoming requests

    PROTOCOLS*
    RedisPostgreSQLMongoDBInfluxDBKafkaWorkflowZooKeeper
    SERVICES
    KVkey-value
    SQLrelational
    DocumentJSON documents
    Time Seriesmetrics & events
    Messagingstreams & queues
    Workflow
    Leader election
    MATERIA
    SERVERLESS SDK
    Record / Table
    Log / Event
    Leader election
    Workflow
    metadataquotastatsversionstampcompactionleaseTTLschedulestorage
    balancer
    getsetscanindexquery enginetransactions
    STORAGE
    ENGINE POOL
    FoundationDBcluster a
    FoundationDBcluster b
    FoundationDBcluster c

    * Protocols shown are not exhaustive: several protocols can be available for each service.