Federated Cloud Grid

A growing network of whitesky-powered cloud locations, built by and for service providers and their clients.

  Watch the webinar: The whitesky.cloud Federation
Two screencasts recorded on live federated locations in Uganda and Belgium, plus the slides. Watch the recordings →

Built for Collaboration

whitesky enables service providers to offer sovereign cloud services under their own brand — and opt into a wider grid of compatible locations. The Federation has two roles (see the Cloud Enabler / VCO model):

  • Cloud Enablers (telcos, datacenters, hosters, or MSPs that own hardware) run whitesky locations, offer their spare capacity (vCPUs, RAM, block/object storage) to other Cloud Enablers, and resell capacity from other locations
  • Virtual Cloud Operators (VCOs) (MSPs, integrators, resellers or SaaS companies) contract and are billed only by their own Cloud Enabler, yet can deploy in every federated location
  • Everyone maintains control over their own infrastructure and customers

Resell, Expand, Stay Independent

Each partner location remains independently owned, but thanks to federated integration through whitesky:

  • Authentication, billing, and automation are unified
  • API keys and user portals span all federated cloud locations
  • Capacity is metered and invoiced transparently
The federated cloud gridIndependent Cloud Enablers, each with its own location, hardware, VCOs and customers, join the whitesky Federation, which gives them one identity for logins and API keys, one transparently metered bill, and shared capacity. A Cloud Enabler can offer its excess capacity, vCPUs, RAM, block or object storage, to another Cloud Enabler. VCOs buy capacity only through their own Cloud Enabler.whitesky FederationOne identitylogins and API keysCloud Enabler Aown location and hardwareown VCOs and customersOne billmetered transparentlyCloud Enabler Bown location and hardwareown VCOs and customersShared capacityoffer it, or buy itCloud Enabler Cown location and hardwareown VCOs and customersA offers excess capacity to BvCPUs, RAM, block or object storageVCOs buy only throughtheir own Cloud Enabler
The federated cloud gridIndependent Cloud Enablers, each with its own location, hardware, VCOs and customers, join the whitesky Federation, which gives them one identity for logins and API keys, one transparently metered bill, and shared capacity. A Cloud Enabler can offer its excess capacity, vCPUs, RAM, block or object storage, to another Cloud Enabler. VCOs buy capacity only through their own Cloud Enabler.whitesky FederationOne identitylogins and API keysOne billmetered transparentlyShared capacityoffer it, or buy itCloud Enabler Aown location, hardware, VCOsCloud Enabler Bown location, hardware, VCOsCloud Enabler Cown location, hardware, VCOsCloud Enablers offer excess capacityto each other; VCOs buy only throughtheir own Cloud Enabler
Each Cloud Enabler keeps its own location, hardware and customers; the Federation adds one identity, one bill and shared capacity between Cloud Enablers, and VCOs buy only through their own Cloud Enabler.

In addition, whitesky private clouds can target these public whitesky cloud locations for:

  • Backup and disaster recovery
  • Bursting into additional compute/storage capacity
  • Offloading specific workloads to other trusted regions
Private clouds use the public gridA whitesky private cloud keeps critical operations in-house and targets public, federated whitesky cloud locations for backup and disaster recovery, for bursting into extra compute and storage, and for offloading workloads to other trusted regions.whiteskyprivate cloudcritical operationsstay in-housePublic whiteskycloud locationsBackup and disaster recoveryfederated locationBursting: compute, storagefederated locationOffloading to trusted regionsfederated location
Private clouds use the public gridA whitesky private cloud keeps critical operations in-house and targets public, federated whitesky cloud locations for backup and disaster recovery, for bursting into extra compute and storage, and for offloading workloads to other trusted regions.whitesky private cloudcritical operations stay in-houseBackup and disaster recoveryBursting: compute, storageOffloading to trusted regionsPublic whitesky cloud locationslocationlocationlocation
A whitesky private cloud keeps critical operations in-house and uses public federated locations for backup, bursting and offloading.

This flexibility allows organizations to keep critical operations in-house while leveraging the reach and resilience of the federated network.

Real-World Collaboration

Whether you’re an MSP in Belgium, a telco in Latin America, or a SaaS company scaling in Africa — you can join the whitesky Federation, as a Cloud Enabler with your own location or as a VCO of a Cloud Enabler.

Cloud Enablers resell each other’s capacity. VCOs reach every federated location through one contract.

Current Partners

The whitesky footprint counts 18 cloud locations in 8 countries, 10 of them in the Federation; the others are private, single-tenant clouds. The list below shows publicly listed federated locations.

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Varity
Netherlands
Available

Services Available

Cloudspaces ✓
Objectspaces ✓
Containerspaces ✓
GPUs ✗
CloudCom
Belgium
Available

Services Available

Cloudspaces ✓
Objectspaces ✗
Containerspaces ✓
GPUs ✓
LCI
Mauritius
Available

Services Available

Cloudspaces ✓
Objectspaces ✓
Containerspaces ✓
GPUs ✗
AfriQloud
Uganda
Available

Services Available

Cloudspaces ✓
Objectspaces ✓
Containerspaces ✓
GPUs ✗
Onboarding

Services Available

Cloudspaces ✓
Objectspaces ✓
Containerspaces ✓
GPUs ✓
whitesky Poland (*)
Poland
Available

Services Available

Cloudspaces ✓
Objectspaces ✓
Containerspaces ✓
GPUs ✓
whitesky (*)
Belgium
Available

Services Available

Cloudspaces ✓
Objectspaces ✓
Containerspaces ✓
GPUs ✓
Available

Services Available

Cloudspaces ✓
Objectspaces ✗
Containerspaces ✓
GPUs ✗

(*) Mainly used for demonstrations and proofs of concept

Federation Map

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