Cloud 66

Cloud 66 operates a deployment and operations platform that lets development teams build, deploy, scale and manage applications on infrastructure they own or rent, rather than on infrastructure supplied by the vendor. Users connect a Git repository and a cloud provider account, after which Cloud 66 provisions and configures servers and deploys the application. The company explicitly does not resell servers; it functions as a PaaS-style control layer over a customer's own accounts at any major cloud provider, on the customer's own hardware, or across a hybrid mix of the two.

The product covers what the company frames as "Day 2" operations in addition to initial deployment: zero-downtime, blue/green and canary deployment strategies, hosted build servers for Docker images with multi-architecture support and an integrated container registry, autoscaling driven by application metrics such as CPU, memory, queue backlog and Nginx response time, preview environments tied to branches, tags and pull requests, managed databases with off-site backups and replication, server hardening through firewall rules, a WAF and continuous OS patching, SSL certificate management including Let's Encrypt and wildcard certificates, monitoring and log streaming, and team management with fine-grained permissions, audit logs and SAML SSO on higher tiers. Both containerized applications and native (non-container) applications deployed directly to VMs are supported, and all installed services are configured through native configuration files held in a Git repository.

Earlier descriptions position the company as an end-to-end infrastructure management service that uses Linux containers to help developers run web services, mobile backends and APIs across public and private clouds. Its marketing has more recently targeted teams migrating away from Heroku and workloads that conventional PaaS offerings do not accommodate, such as vector and time-series databases, AI agents, machine learning models, event streaming platforms and legacy software.

Founding story

Cloud 66 was founded in August 2012 by Khash Sajadi and Vic van Gool, who had both previously worked at Lehman Brothers and had backgrounds in software development and the management of large-scale systems. The company was incubated at Telefonica's Wayra accelerator and became one of the first partners of the Telefonica Cloud.

Business model

Cloud 66 sells a subscription software platform rather than hosting capacity: customers pay Cloud 66 for the deployment and management layer while paying their own cloud provider or supplying their own servers for the underlying compute.

Tiered monthly or annual subscriptions, with annual billing discounted by 20%. Plans run from a free tier (1 deployment server, 1 static site, 5 deployments per 24 hours) through Developer at $23/month, Team at $47/month and Business at $80/month, each with server and static-site limits, plus a contact-sales Enterprise tier for accounts above 50 servers with on-prem and dedicated options, onboarding support and invoicing. Usage-based overage charges apply for additional servers ($12 each), additional static sites ($10 each), build minutes ($0.03/minute beyond the included allowance), static-site egress traffic ($0.02/GB beyond the included allowance), backup storage ($0.38/GB) and extra team members ($5 each). Earlier pricing was $9 per server per month with free development stacks and a first production server at $19 per month.

Traction

By March 2014 the company reported hundreds of customers across more than 100 countries and approximately 3.4 million deployments to date. Company materials cite thousands of developers as users and reference five offices and 100+ developers; an external profile estimates 2-10 employees and annual revenue in the $1M-$10M range.

Latest developments

In February 2026 founder Kash Sajadi published an analysis of PaaS provider shutdowns, prompted by Heroku's announced transition to "sustaining mode" with no new features or new enterprise contracts, and positioned Cloud 66 as a destination for developers migrating away from closing platforms. Current site messaging emphasises support for newer workload types including vector databases, AI agents, machine learning models and event streaming platforms.