CenturyLink Cloud in Australia: Our 14th Public Cloud Node is Live
April 12, 2016By Chris Levanes, Director of Cloud & Managed Hosting, APAC
CenturyLink Cloud® is open for business Down Under.
The new Sydney location features our portfolio of compute, storage, and networking products, fully self-service, elastic, and on-demand.
Now, businesses operating or based in Australia can now turn to a single, trusted provider for public and private Cloud infrastructure, managed services, colocation, networking and support for advanced Hybrid IT scenarios. The Sydney site is our 14th public cloud node, and is federated with our other locations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany and Singapore.
CenturyLink Cloud’s infrastructure and platform offers customers an enterprise-ready path to leveraging cloud services to meet their business and IT requirements. Users can deploy a wide range of applications on our infrastructure – lift-and-shift migrations, traditional three-tier apps, and new cloud native patterns.
Key CenturyLink Differentiators
So what's different about CenturyLink's services? What's unique for the Australian market?
CenturyLink Public Cloud offers built-in cloud management, automation and orchestration capabilities to help customers enable business agility with self-service. Bundled billing and governance features reduce runaway spending or bill shock.
Customers can provision highly-configurable virtual servers instantly. These can then be connected to our full portfolio of Hybrid IT services– Colocation, Managed Hosting and Network, to deliver real-world applications running in across different islands of