--- title: Apache CloudStack Reviews meta_title: 'Apache CloudStack Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 27 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache CloudStack works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 27 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Apache CloudStack Reviews **Vendor:** The Apache Software Foundation **Category:** [Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 27 ## About Apache CloudStack Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines on scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. ## Apache CloudStack Reviews ### 1. Good Service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Quân H. | Cloud Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Apache CloudStack?** Apache CloudStack is robust virtualization management capabilities, support for multiple hypervisors, scalability, high availability features, advanced networking capabilities, a user-friendly self-service portal, API-driven architecture, resource management, and billing functionalities, and its active open-source community and ecosystem. These aspects contribute to its popularity as a cloud infrastructure management platform. **What do you dislike about Apache CloudStack?** There are a few potential limitations: + Complexity of Deployment + Limited Public Cloud Offerings + Documentation and Support + User Interface **What problems is Apache CloudStack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Apache CloudStack provides a robust and scalable cloud management solution, improving resource utilization, enhancing user experience through self-service capabilities, and enabling seamless integration and extensibility with existing infrastructure and tools. ### 2. Cloudstack journey **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saravanan B. | Senior DevOps Engineer, SREvolve, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache CloudStack?** Compute architecture and it's robustness **What do you dislike about Apache CloudStack?** Not much on disadvantages, because this was my first cloud journey **Recommendations to others considering Apache CloudStack:** Best for development and administration **What problems is Apache CloudStack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Development areas are the helpful theme for me ### 3. Quite easy to setup and handle **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas J. | Cloud Manager, Research, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2016 **What do you like best about Apache CloudStack?** The cloudstack interface is user friendly compared to other open source applications available. It's quite easy to setup and handle, it also has a big user email base where most of the issues are discussed making it a bit easy for troubleshooting. **What do you dislike about Apache CloudStack?** It fails in the area where instead of making stuff that works bug free it introduces new ones with every minor or major release. It doesn't have any option to support new GPGPU grid hardware. The log files could be more descriptive, it doesn't always point to the cause. **Recommendations to others considering Apache CloudStack:** If your company is willing to opt for licensed software then I would suggest not going for cloudstack. I feel Cloudstack meets my needs more than OpenStack or OpenNebula. **What problems is Apache CloudStack solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've done a lot of troubleshooting to resolve issues in the last four years I've worked with it. I've faced most of the issues in advance as my user base is mostly students who don't follow instructions. Any small issues or changes made to a network setup inside a VM by a user breaks the virtual router for that zone. ### 4. Change to cloudstack to reduze costs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Apache CloudStack?** This product have excellent feature set. Compared to other concurrent products, have the best stability, support and costs by our tests. Concurrent products have difficulties to implement, is cost prohibitive or is still at too early development stages. Because is open source software, the code can be audited and patches (to improve features or repair bugs) can be done if necessary, and shared with community. **What do you dislike about Apache CloudStack?** Support still at an early stage of some manufacturers, some features are primarily available for OpenStack. Because of this, we have to manage some features outside cloudstack. This takes some time. But because cloudstack is at constant evolution, this gap is reduced. **Recommendations to others considering Apache CloudStack:** - Great support - Big community - Apache foundation support **What problems is Apache CloudStack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data center resource optimization, eliminating idle resources, provide elastic growth resources, allow disruptive resources grow ### 5. Cloudstack sysadmin review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Apache CloudStack?** The documentation is solid. Conceptually makes sense. Less moving pieces than openstack **What do you dislike about Apache CloudStack?** I had problems provisioning VMs from the UI. This was ~2 years ago and we ended up not using a private cloud, but it didn't feel ready to hand over to developers to use as their dev environment since we were having random issues. **Recommendations to others considering Apache CloudStack:** Digest the docs, roll it out, and take it for a spin on hardware you already have before purchasing machines for a Pilot. **What problems is Apache CloudStack solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were hoping to hand over a cloudstack enviornment to developers to manage their own VM's for testing code pre-qa. I think this would have worked if the software more mature at the time of deployment. My guess is many of the kinks has been worked out by now. If I were going to launch a private cloud, I would definitely give cloudstack another try, before trying alternatives. Mainly because the docs were so good, its apache based (love the apache community and its organisational benefits), and because the architecture/moving pieces were simple/made sense. ### 6. A good platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alessandro L. | Sviluppatore Ruby & Web, sysadmin Linux, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2016 **What do you like best about Apache CloudStack?** Stability and features seems very good to me. You can find most of the cloud features you are expecting, and you'll have a real cloud solution, not a limited, partial implementation like Digital Ocean or similar services. **What do you dislike about Apache CloudStack?** The graphic interface can be vastly improved. It's usable but not very pretty, accessibility is terrible and it's easy to make some mistakes. It's also not responsive. **Recommendations to others considering Apache CloudStack:** Just try it, should be pretty cheap using an external provider. **What problems is Apache CloudStack solving and how is that benefiting you?** I manage several XEN virtual servers. Management it's quite easy (but the interface is not very good) and the platform is pretty stable. My service provider is Prometeus (Italy), i just buy credits and use their installation. ### 7. Cloudstack for homelab **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Johan B. | Lead Client Developer, Broadcast Media, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Apache CloudStack?** Super intuitive ux and easy setup. Stable for my needs (kvm) **What do you dislike about Apache CloudStack?** The website looks nothing like the software. Seriously? https://cloudstack.apache.org This is how you promote something: http://www.azk.io/ **Recommendations to others considering Apache CloudStack:** I think Cloudstack needs to be more aggressive in what it's long term plans are. I'm also missing some transparency. This is a good example of GREAT transparency: http://hapijs.com/updates **What problems is Apache CloudStack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Homelab needs. Docker containers. Stability and maturity. The benefits is an amazing suite of tools for free, although I'm having a hard time deciding wether cloudstack or OpenNebule is better for my experimental needs. ### 8. It works ! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepak G. | Software Development Engineer 2, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Apache CloudStack?** A simple interface for the admins, developers and users. For the admin, everything is at one place and do not involve knowing too much about the components. For the developer, its easy to participate in the community. Everyone is always helping. For the user, the interface and UI is simple and intuitive. **What do you dislike about Apache CloudStack?** Feature set is less than other competitive products **What problems is Apache CloudStack solving and how is that benefiting you?** we used it in our office to be able to fire VMs fast and run tests/builds etc. Its easy to set up. ### 9. Learning process **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2016 **What do you like best about Apache CloudStack?** The platform has lot of flexibility and is very rich in features. **What do you dislike about Apache CloudStack?** Some of the features are not very intuitive. Also found many bugs since we started implementation. **Recommendations to others considering Apache CloudStack:** Be aware that there is a learning curve from basic deployment in order to get where you want to get regarding service offering. Cloud Portal Business Manager not necessarily will support all the features available in Cloud Stack. **What problems is Apache CloudStack solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are providing public cloud services using the platform. ### 10. used it mainly to set up proof of concepts for different use cases **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Apache CloudStack?** The simplicity and the the robustness of the product. **What do you dislike about Apache CloudStack?** I would like to integrate it with containers lxc wise but until today I didn't found many documentation about it. Same for different network use cases it's not that easy to integrate the networking part in already existing setups. But that goes for every private cloud imo. **What problems is Apache CloudStack solving and how is that benefiting you?** The flexibility to launch a server whenever you want the way you want. from GUI to command line. - [View Apache CloudStack pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-cloudstack/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-20+08%3A36%3A29+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=73b6bbed-dcf3-4f16-88c8-dd8ecef00e00&secure%5Btoken%5D=eb44e0efc2dabdbdf6fdb214e71302ac29254f07a115a6182dc5eabefc52ed80&format=llm_user) ## Apache CloudStack Features **Functionality** - Cloud Consolidation - Cloud Orchestration - Cloud Optimization **Infrastructure Provision** - Public Cloud - Private Cloud - Hybrid Cloud - Bare Metal - High-Performance Computing (HPC) - Virtual Machines (VMs) - Edge Computing - Virtual Networks **Management** - Cloud Cost Analytics - Cloud Security - Cloud Resource Management - Cloud Backup and Recovery **Management** - Pay by Usage - Usage Tracking - Performance Tracking **Functionality** - Resource Auto-Scaling **Agentic AI - Cloud Management Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Decision Making ## Top Apache CloudStack Alternatives - [OpenStack](https://www.g2.com/products/openstack/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (52 reviews) - [DigitalOcean](https://www.g2.com/products/digitalocean/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (738 reviews) - [Google Compute Engine](https://www.g2.com/products/google-compute-engine/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (875 reviews)