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◆// CLOUD DATA CENTER

Cloud Data Center

A production-grade private cloud students actually operate — with on-call rotations and real SLAs.

5,000CPU cores
3Availability zones
99.98%Uptime SLA
5,000 CORES
Headline capacity
REGION: HEALTHY · 5,000 CORES · 99.98% SLA
CPU cores5,000
Availability zones3
Uptime SLA99.98%
01 / OVERVIEW

Inside the Cloud Data Center

The Cloud Data Center is a real private cloud — compute, storage and networking across three availability zones — that students run like a hyperscaler team, complete with monitoring, on-call and postmortems.

It hosts student-built services and internal platforms, so reliability engineering is learned by doing.

Operated by the School of Cloud Computing.

// CAPABILITIES
  • Container orchestration at scale
  • Distributed storage systems
  • Observability & on-call
  • CI/CD & platform engineering
  • Multi-tenant isolation
  • Chaos & resilience testing
02 / EQUIPMENT & SPECS

Technical specification

Compute5,000 CPU cores
Zones3 availability zones
Storage4 PB object + block
OrchestrationKubernetes
NetworkingSDN + service mesh
SLA99.98% target
03 / WHAT WE BUILD

Projects & research

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Student PaaS

An internal platform hosting student projects.

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Observability stack

Metrics, logs and traces for all services.

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Chaos program

Game-days that deliberately break things to build resilience.

04 / ACCESS & BOOKING

Who can use it

Open to Cloud Computing and Digital Product Engineering students, and available to any school hosting a project. Teams get namespaces and on-call responsibility for what they deploy.

FacultyGraduate studentsUndergraduateAll schools (projects)
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05 / SAFETY & COMPLIANCE

Operating safely

Strict tenant isolation and quotas prevent one team affecting another. Production changes go through review, and destructive actions are gated.

06 / RELATED

Related laboratories

// VISIT THE CLOUD DATA CENTER

Work in the Cloud Data Center.

Book a tour, request access, or partner with us on research.