Public Cloud: Get What You Need When You Need It

Public Cloud

In the public cloud, you get quick access to compute, storage, app hosting and more — as much as you need, when you need it. The hardware is located outside of your data center and is shared with other customers, which keeps prices low.

How Public Cloud Helps Your Business

Scalable

Spin up a server in under a minute — and spin it down when you’re done.

Cost Efficient

Since public cloud infrastructure is shared with many customers, so you pay only for the server resources that you require.

Flexible

Most public clouds allow you to add networking, storage, databases and more, with just a click.

Use Cases

The public cloud is the ideal platform for non-sensitive, public-facing operations, with unpredictable traffic.

Web pages and CMS Systems
Web servers/ app servers
In-memory analytics

Batch processing apps
Media streaming apps
NoSQL stores (Mongo DB, Cassandra)

Small databases or large relational databases
Network appliances
Caches (Redis, Memcached)

Platforms We Support

Our teams of certified experts in AWS, Azure and OpenStack can manage all of your public clouds around the clock — so you can focus on your business, while we focus on your growing cloud.

	Amazon Web Services	Microsoft Azure	OpenStack Public Cloud	Managed Google Cloud Platform
Why Rackspace	Amazon Web Services 800+ AWS Technical Certifications, supporting all 11 AWS public regions	Microsoft Azure Five-time Microsoft Hosting Partner of the Year — more times than anyone else	OpenStack Public Cloud Co-founded with NASA, with over one billion managed server hours & 99.99% API uptime	Managed Google Cloud PlatformFirst Managed Services partner for Google Cloud Platform
About Platforms	Amazon Web Services A comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform 70 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, analytics, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and enterprise applications 35 Availability Zones (AZs) 13 geographic regions Over 1 million customers	Microsoft Azure 38 compliance certifications Leader across Gartner’s Magic Quadrants for Cloud IaaS, Enterprise Application Platform as a Service, and Public Cloud Storage Services Integrated cloud services for compute, analytics, database, mobile, web, storage and networking Hybrid Cloud Platform and platform consistency with a single management tool Over 66 percent of Fortune 500 companies rely on Azure	OpenStack Public Cloud The world’s largest open-source cloud computing platform Over 60,000 community members powering its development Controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter Dashboard or OpenStack API management Works with popular enterprise and open source technologies Hundreds of the world’s largest brands rely on OpenStack	Managed Google Cloud Platform Up to 60% cheaper than competing public clouds Highest availability of any public cloud More than 60 GCP services including live migrations Private global fiber network and proprietary hardware stack Largest software-defined network in the world
	Amazon Web Services Learn More	Microsoft Azure Learn More	OpenStack Public Cloud Learn More	OpenStack Public Cloud Learn More

Why Rackspace for Public Cloud

Fanatical Support^®

Our specialists proactively monitor and maintain the health of your public cloud and are available 24x7x365.

Hybrid Cloud

Use RackConnect ® to connect public cloud, private cloud and dedicated environments in your data center or ours.

Choice and Expertise

We’re an AWS 400 Certified Partner and one of Microsoft’s largest hosting partners — and the inventor of OpenStack.

"The bottom line is that without Rackspace we would have had to substantially increase our own team to achieve the same results."

Nik Rhodes

CIO, Rivo Software

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