FluidCloud introduces ‘cloud cloning’ platform

Startup FluidCloud, described as a portable cloud infrastructure provider, has launched the FluidCloud Platform, a “cloud cloning” platform that lets users clone, migrate, restore, and optimize infrastructure across clouds in minutes, according to FluidCloud.

FluidCloud Platform draws on infrastructure-as-code principles to reverse engineer existing environments into a standard infrastructure definition, enabling “seamless” cloning, migration, and remapping across heterogeneous cloud ecosystems, FluidCloud said. Key features of FluidCloud Platform, which was written in the Go language, include fast portability, resiliency, and unified governance. The company said the platform provides:

Built-in infrastructure mapping and automation that enables fast movement of workloads across regions, accounts, and cloud providers,

Native infrastructure redundancy that ensures teams can instantly spin up backup environments in the event of outages, and

AI-powered cloud governance that provides a real-time view of compliance, usage, drift detection, cost efficiency, and best practices across cloud environments.

In elaborating on its development, FluidCloud said most enterprises today find themselves unintentionally tied to a single cloud provider. Despite best efforts to prioritize innovation and agility, teams often become dependent on proprietary architectures and tools that make switching providers expensive, slow, and technically complex. Even when organizations do migrate, they often find themselves trading one walled garden for another, FluidCloud said.

“Businesses deserve the freedom to choose the best vendor for each workload, tailored to their governance, performance, innovation, and cost needs,” said Sharad Kumar, CEO and co-founder in a statement. “We built FluidCloud to help teams move fast, build smart, and negotiate from a position of strength. Innovation starts with freeing your infrastructure.”