For Data Centre Providers

Your customers are
choosing AWS.
Here's how you win them back.

Cloudyard gives your tenants the self-service cloud experience they demand — developer portals, data platforms, one-click deployments — all running on your infrastructure. No hyperscaler. No licensing fees. No migration headaches.

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The Problem You're Already Facing

A prospect with 40 seats compared you to AWS and walked. Not because of price. Because you had no automation story. Your tenants expect self-service provisioning, data platforms and developer tooling — not a ticket queue that takes three days to spin up a VM. That deal won't be the last.

£0Vendor licensing fees
<1hrTenant onboarding target
100%Open source core
OIDCUnified identity, zero tickets
// The Competitive Gap

What AWS sells isn't compute.
It's the experience around it.

Your tenants aren't leaving because AWS is faster. They're leaving because AWS feels effortless. Every team that's touched a cloud console now expects the same experience wherever they work.

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The Ticket Queue Tax

Developers raise tickets to provision storage, spin up environments, or install a Python package. Days pass. Momentum dies. Teams compare notes and evaluate alternatives.

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The Broadcom Effect

VMware licensing costs just became untenable for thousands of companies. They're reviewing their entire infrastructure stack right now — but only if you can offer something more than "we'll migrate your VMs."

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Data Science as Third Class

Data engineers and scientists are the hardest to provision for. GPU access, pip dependencies, notebook environments, data lake permissions — all manual, all slow, all friction that makes cloud look easy by comparison.

// The Cloudyard Opportunity

Give your tenants AWS-level UX. Keep their data in your rack.

Cloudyard is a pre-integrated, opinionated platform that sits on top of your existing infrastructure and delivers a complete developer and data science experience via a self-service portal.

  • Developer portal — Backstage-powered service catalogue. Spin up services without ever raising a ticket.
  • Data lake on demand — MinIO S3-compatible storage, pre-wired to Airflow, Argo Workflows and DataHub. OIDC-secured.
  • First-class data science — Coder workspaces with VSCode and PyCharm. pip and npm without a ticket queue.
  • Zero proprietary licensing — Every component is open source. The community is your support contract.
  • Talos Kubernetes — Immutable, secure-by-design substrate. Consistent across Proxmox, OpenStack and bare metal.
  • Flat revenue share — Cloudyard subscriptions layer on top of your existing hosting contracts.
portal.acme-dc.cloudyard.io — Service Catalogue
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♦  fintechco 8
Service Catalogue
All deployed services across your tenants
All (23)ServicesDataInfra
analytics-apiService
FastAPI + Postgres, GitLab CI
acme-corp
ml-pipeline-01Data
Airflow DAG → MinIO → DataHub
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talos-cluster-02Infra
3-node k8s, Cilium, Proxmox
platform
ds-workspace-janeData
Coder · PyCharm · GPU-attached
fintechco
// No Licensing Risk

The open source community
is your support contract.

Every Cloudyard component has a thriving open source community, extensive documentation, and enterprise support tiers available directly from projects like MinIO, Grafana, and Talos — on your terms. No single vendor dependency. Ever.

Kubernetes / TalosBackstageMinIO Grafana + LokiArgoCDAirflow DataHubCoderOpenWebUI Argo WorkflowsOpenTofuGitLab CI
// Revenue Model

Predictable costs for your tenants.
New margin for you.

Your business model is built on static, predictable costs. Cloudyard fits that model exactly — tenants pay a flat monthly subscription tier on top of their existing hosting contract.

£0/mo
Open Source Core
The full platform, free to deploy with no seat limits and no expiry.
Revenue Share per tenant
Cloudyard Subscription
SSO, alerting, premium Coder templates, scaffolded pipelines and SLA-backed support. You earn margin on every tenant you activate.
Spiff per activation
Sales Activation Bonus
One-time bonus per activated tenant. Because momentum needs incentivising from day one.
// Why Not Just Push Them to AWS

The case for keeping workloads on your iron.

CapabilityTraditional DC (today)AWS / HyperscalerDC + Cloudyard
Self-service provisioning Ticket required Instant Instant via portal
Data lake access Manual setup S3 on demand MinIO, OIDC-secured
Dev workspaces Windows VMs~ Partial Coder + VSCode/PyCharm
Data sovereignty Your metal Hyperscaler region Your metal
Predictable monthly cost Variable billing Flat subscription
VMware licensing Ongoing Broadcom costN/A Zero licensing
// Partner Incentives

We win when you win.

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Revenue Share

Earn a percentage of every Cloudyard tenant subscription. Recurring, predictable, stacks month on month.

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Activation Spiff

One-time bonus per activated tenant. Rewards your account managers for that first critical conversation.

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Retention Lock-in

A tenant running their data pipelines on your infrastructure doesn't migrate. Cloudyard turns VM renters into sticky platform customers.

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Competitive Edge

Be the first DC in your market with a credible answer to "do you have anything like AWS?"

Partner Application

Ready to stop losing deals
to the hyperscalers?

Apply for the Cloudyard Partner Program. We work with a focused number of data centre providers to ensure every partnership gets the attention it deserves.