Introduction to public cloud

The multi-cloud platform enables you to add public cloud regions and vCloud Director clouds as public cloud regions for compute and/or billing.

The default Hybrid tab of the Home dashboard view can display public cloud billing information, including latest bills and estimated bills. For details of the dashboard widgets, see Hybrid and for configuration details, see Display cloud provider billing data.

For compute access, you can offer cloud tenants a federation of private cloud and public clouds in a single pane of glass. And you can control the use of public cloud resources in the same way as you can in the platform's private cloud datacenter (quotas, limits, etc).

The platform manages public cloud regions using remote services. When you create a public cloud region, the remote services can be shared with other datacenters or public cloud regions, and you do not need an NFS repository.

An Abiquo datacenter and public cloud location

Each cloud tenant using the public cloud region will require its own cloud provider account and needs to add a set of credentials to the Enterprise. You can use Abiquo to manage AWS and Azure reseller accounts for your customers.

When users create a virtual datacenter and deploy in the public cloud region, the platform creates the entities in the public cloud provider. For example, in AWS, Abiquo creates a VPC and in AWS, VMs deployed in the VPC virtual datacenter are AWS EC2 Instances.

An Abiquo VDC and its corresponding Amazon VPC

Abiquo also synchronizes with all public cloud providers to onboard virtual resources, either at the virtual datacenter or regional level. An examples of a provider with virtual datacenter synchronization is AWS, and one with regional synchronization is Google Cloud Platform.