# Cloud 66 Reviews **Vendor:** Cloud 66 **Category:** [Application Release Orchestration (ARO) Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/application-release-orchestration) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 ## About Cloud 66 Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with "server stuff". With the convenience of PaaS but on any cloud, and in any region, Cloud 66 has persistent storage, custom network configuration, zero downtime deployments, blue/green and canary releases, full databases support, replication & managed backups. With no team size limits, Cloud 66 offers powerful access management, traffic control, firewalls, SSL certificate management, and more. How does it work? Step 1: Signup for a free Cloud 66 Account Step 2: Connect your Cloud 66 account to your git repository, Step 3: Connect your Cloud 66 account to your cloud provider. Step 4: Deploy! Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Jamstack (Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Next.js, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Svelte, Middleman, and Docusaurus), Laravel, GoLang, and more. ## Cloud 66 Reviews ### 1. Cloud66 Review - Easy DevOps management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Cloud 66?** My team is small and handles both application development and DevOps. Cloud66 has made it easy for us to manage our infrastructure and has allowed us to devote more time to development and business needs. The tools for managing web and database servers have allowed us to develop a reliable process for scaling when needed and upgrading servers painlessly. Support has been great, both on Slack and through the support channel. **What do you dislike about Cloud 66?** I don't have any significant dislikes. For a while, I wanted a feature that would allow for managing multiple database servers within a single stack. That feature was added earlier this year. :) **What problems is Cloud 66 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud66 helps us manage our infrastructure painlessly with a small team of developers. We are able to spend more time writing code and managing business needs. ### 2. Amazing Experience with Cloud 66 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sachin K. | Senior Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Cloud 66?** The experience with cloud 66 was so stunning and astonishing. The support is so great and satisfactionable. It provides great services. It also provides free trail so that you can make your experience with the tool and then go proceed for decisions. **What do you dislike about Cloud 66?** I have no dislinkings for this tool. Everything is fine. I didn't face any obstacle white using the tool. I wouldn't see many dislike with this kind of product. **What problems is Cloud 66 solving and how is that benefiting you?** It saves countless hours for devops. Solve the problem of stroing data. It allows to focus on the code. Overall it will be beneficial for us to provide a better solution to customer. ### 3. Handles Your DevOps **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam z. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Cloud 66?** Cloud66 allows me to focus on creating a better business instead of servers and DevOps. One-click deploys, easy updates/upgrades, and good support have kept me around for over six years. If you are a ruby shop give them a try. **What do you dislike about Cloud 66?** They've spent a lot of resources on docker stuff, which isn't as simple as their ruby offering. This is too bad because there aren't many innovations on their ruby offering. **What problems is Cloud 66 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Get your code on the internet fast. Its benefiting me because its getting my code on the internet fast. Not much more to say here but there is a word minimum, ### 4. I like Cloud 66 and how it works **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James D. | CEO, Management Consulting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Cloud 66?** The support from the work team is impressive as they give quick solutions and when solving questions they explain in such a well done way that it makes everything perfectly understood. We easily create and implement our applications in the cloud without using the server. **What do you dislike about Cloud 66?** Maybe if you don't have extensive knowledge at first it can be a bit confusing so much information with professional terms that not everyone understands the rest I don't dislike anything **What problems is Cloud 66 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Significantly reduces development ops time and helps store data in the cloud securely and reliably ### 5. Push software to the cloud efficiently with Cloud 66 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel L. | Data Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Cloud 66?** Deploying is way better than before since we started using Cloud 66. We are able to commit and deploy the changes to multiple cloud service providers all at once. **What do you dislike about Cloud 66?** I think it would be way better if Cloud 66 support integration with more system. Currently, it support Slack and Github, but I want it to support other system such as Trello, etc. **What problems is Cloud 66 solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Cloud 66 to manage our feature release and deployment to the cloud. With Cloud 66 we are able to easily maintain our codes, and also easily deploy new changes seamlessly. ### 6. Cloud 66 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vidyashree M. | Inside Sales Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Cloud 66?** Cloud 66 is a perfect application that makes the user maintain, build, and deploy our applications easily on the cloud without making the use of server **What do you dislike about Cloud 66?** There is nothing wrong about the product as it makes the user use the application very easily **What problems is Cloud 66 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud 66 helps with endpoint protection, Email security, data security and confidentiality. ### 7. Great orchestration for the masses **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacob T. | Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Cloud 66?** C66 is an incredibly easy way to get start with a project, or run reliable infrastructure in your own cloud environments, but orchestrated with zero fuss. Took about 2 hours to get a complex Rails/Yarn project running and scaling. **What do you dislike about Cloud 66?** There are a few quirks in how C66 runs deployments and application updates you need to get used to. Once you have a firm understanding of this its super easy though. deploy_hooks.yml and well thought out helper processes make this pretty seamless **What problems is Cloud 66 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Infrastructure at scale, without the complexity of needing a full infra management stack when starting out and growing quickly ### 8. Awesome PaaS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alvaro I. | Director of Web Development, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Cloud 66?** - Support the two technologies that we use the most in the company (Ruby on Rails and Node.js) - Support Docker and Kubernates - Have a lot of tools that can make your life easier like ActiveProtect, Failover Groups, LiveLogs, Team Access Control... - Have a free plan so you can start testing the platform and if you like it you then can start using a paying account - Multiple database integrations, we personally used MySQL and PostgreSQL but you will also have access to MongoDB, Redis, InfluxDB, RabbitMQ, Memcached and Elastic Search - Have the ability to access and manage everything via an API as well a some web hook integrations that can help you with your daily activity. **What do you dislike about Cloud 66?** - You won't see many dislike with this kind of products. You will probably will have to include other cloud services to your infrastructure... also PaaS can be expensive sometimes, if you don't consider the cost of having an actual DevOps in your team. **Recommendations to others considering Cloud 66:** You should definitely test it, keep in mind that this kind of solution aren't cheap, but in the long run could be cheaper than having your own dev ops team. **What problems is Cloud 66 solving and how is that benefiting you?** This will let you minimize your dev ops time and focus more in the development of a product rather than configuring servers and services. ### 9. Very affordable package plans. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph M. | Brand Ambassador, Events Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Cloud 66?** Cloud 66 software is very convenient and reliable to house your nodejs apps. **What do you dislike about Cloud 66?** They have limited their cloud only to ruby on rails applications and nodejs. It could be more convenient if they included other languages as well. **Recommendations to others considering Cloud 66:** I can highly recommend this software to developers working with ruby or nodejs applications. **What problems is Cloud 66 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud 66 has solved the problem of having to store data locally on physical devices, which can crash at anytime. ### 10. Saved us a boatload of money **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan A. | Senior Software Developer, Venture Capital & Private Equity, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2017 **What do you like best about Cloud 66?** We wanted to reduce our Heroku bill and gain more control over our apps. We had a painless switch from Heroku to Cloud 66. We can scale up our servers without downtime, and continually take advantage of the latest hardware. **What do you dislike about Cloud 66?** The UI could use an update; it's looking a little dated. That's a minor dislike though. **What problems is Cloud 66 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Serving rails applications efficiently and cost effectively. We have also made our infrastructure more robust by taking advantage of load balancers and failover groups. - [View Cloud 66 pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/cloud-66/reviews/cloud-66-review-7741526?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-17+03%3A27%3A51+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b3b409ed-39fa-4bdd-ba8a-b91362c843e4&secure%5Btoken%5D=c25e1ee65530a2a0afd407bae212778bc95812f412d1ab2f9f52bfcb055bac01&format=llm_user) ## Cloud 66 Features **Administration** - Configuration Management - Access Control - Dashboards **Functionality** - Automation - Change validation - Version control **Development** - Application Deployment - Development Tools - Development Environment - Language Support - Testing **Functionality** - Deployment Automation - Plugins - APIs / Integrations **Management** - Visibility - Rollbacks - Post-deployment validation **Database** - Database Management - Analytics - Auto Scaling - Backup / Recovery - Storage **Processes** - Pipelines - Orchestration **Infrastructure** - Networking - Virtual Machines - Security ## Top Cloud 66 Alternatives - [Azure Pipelines](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-pipelines/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (358 reviews) - [CloudBees](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudbees/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (591 reviews) - [GitLab](https://www.g2.com/products/gitlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (874 reviews)