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CloudStack pros and cons

Vendor: Apache
4.0 out of 5

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PROS

CloudStack offers robust support for various hypervisors, enhancing interoperability and flexibility.
Its centralized design simplifies scalability, management, and troubleshooting, making it ideal for large virtual environments.
APIs in CloudStack facilitate seamless integration with external applications and allow customized cloud solutions.
CloudStack provides a multi-tenant interface with advanced networking features, which ensure security and privacy for users.
The platform continuously evolves with new features and improvements, maintaining stability and efficiency over time.

CONS

CloudStack lacks specific error messages in administration processes like creating new instances.
The VPN P2S disconnects all connections except the CloudStack environment, unlike Cisco's AnyConnect.
Accounts, domains, and user accounts are set up for public cloud, not private.
A lack of easily implementable payment gateway and billing solutions limits CloudStack's 360-degree capabilities.
Removal of high-capacity virtual machines takes a long time, often failing to update VM status properly in the database.
 

CloudStack Pros review quotes

Tharun Kumar Reddy Thamatam - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Consultant at Infosys
Sep 17, 2025
CloudStack has greatly helped integrate our existing infrastructure because we manage a massive cloud platform with thousands of VMs and around 1,200 to 1,500 hypervisors.
SJ
Executive Director (IT and ERP) at Ha-Meem Group
Apr 18, 2025
CloudStack provides an environment that is very simple to use, with built-in APIs and a web interface that supports almost all features of AWS and Azure.
Peter Karlsson - PeerSpot reviewer
System specialist at Savecore
Aug 26, 2025
The APIs for automation in CloudStack are excellent; everything is API-driven, and while the API is very rich and hard to learn, you can do everything you would want to do, including everything in the user interface and more.
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KS
CTO at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Feb 20, 2025
Everything in CloudStack works effectively.
AB
CTO at Encha
Jun 4, 2025
The initial implementation process was quite good.
Nelson Marcos - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer Manager at Globo.com
Nov 21, 2022
My company could implement a lot of customizations and integration with load balancers and DNS. When we started using CloudStack, we didn't have that integration, so we developed that. We could fix anything missing in the solution.
Wido Den Hollander - PeerSpot reviewer
Community Ambassador at 42on
Feb 17, 2023
Over the years, we have valued CloudStack for its stability.
Arun S . - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Feb 14, 2023
When compared to OpenStack, CloudStack is also an open-source platform that is continuously improving its features and capabilities with each new version release. Having worked with CloudStack 4.7, 4.14, and most recently, 4.17, I have noticed significant enhancements in the platform's features and customer experience, such as the introduction of a new user interface in the latest release. Notably, the latest versions have made major improvements to VM live migrations, making them more efficient and effective.
Marco Sinhoreli - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Marketing Manager at ShapeBlue
Nov 6, 2022
I have been impressed by CloudStack's most recent updates around Kubernetes. In particular, they have worked with Kubernetes to support the Cluster API, and you can now easily integrate Kubernetes into CloudStack and get access to a lot of good features.
reviewer2108409 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer - Offboard Infrastructure at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
Feb 28, 2023
I liked the separation of the isolated network versus the shared network.
 

CloudStack Cons review quotes

Tharun Kumar Reddy Thamatam - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Consultant at Infosys
Sep 17, 2025
For future releases, it would be beneficial if Apache enhanced CloudStack by integrating alerting systems directly. We've had instances where hypervisors experienced overloads without prior alerts, so proactive alerts within the tool would better prepare us for addressing issues swiftly, preventing disruption in business operations.
SJ
Executive Director (IT and ERP) at Ha-Meem Group
Apr 18, 2025
CloudStack lacks a billing solution which would complete it as a full 360-degree product.
Peter Karlsson - PeerSpot reviewer
System specialist at Savecore
Aug 26, 2025
The installation of CloudStack can be quite challenging because you need a good understanding of the product before starting.
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KS
CTO at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Feb 20, 2025
The product could improve by embracing newer technologies like GPU virtualization.
AB
CTO at Encha
Jun 4, 2025
The product does not have an easily implementable payment gateway.
Nelson Marcos - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer Manager at Globo.com
Nov 21, 2022
My teammates have complained about the upgrade. The source code had massive files that had to be merged with our own development to upgrade to the latest version of CloudStack. It was quite painful for them. CloudStack could add some cost management tools to give me some control over the costs associated with the number of users of my services.
Wido Den Hollander - PeerSpot reviewer
Community Ambassador at 42on
Feb 17, 2023
I think that container technology in CloudStack is an area that needs to be improved.
Arun S . - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Feb 14, 2023
The number of contributors to this solution is relatively small compared to other solutions. However, if more frequent users of CloudStack contribute to the open-source community, it will significantly enhance the overall community experience and make it more useful for everyone involved.
Marco Sinhoreli - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Marketing Manager at ShapeBlue
Nov 6, 2022
We recognize that CloudStack is an easy-to-use cloud management platform and, in my opinion, there has been a large number of improvements in the past few years, particular when it comes to the modern UI and overall ease of management. However, I believe that CloudStack needs to grow their marketing in the commercial side. They don't have a great piece of market share right now.
reviewer2108409 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer - Offboard Infrastructure at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
Feb 28, 2023
The area of improvement could be the regionalization aspect. For example, managing multiple regions or HubStack deployments together was not thought out thoroughly in the versions I used. We faced issues around managing the global infrastructure and had to develop around it.