Build your own cloud business on a sovereign European foundation
THE MODEL
A dedicated platform for your business
EU Cloud in a Box consists of dedicated cloud capacity for you as a partner. It can be placed in your own datacentre or with Edora and connected using Edora Cloud Connect.
On the platform you create separate tenant environments for customers, departments and any sub-partners. Each environment has its own resources, permissions and consumption data.
Edora operates the platform. You manage the business and the customers on top of it.
COMMERCIAL CONTROL
Your name on the product and the contract
When you buy EU Cloud in a Box, you get a complete cloud platform to run a business on. Here is what it gives you and your customers.
Brand
The portal and the customer journey are adapted to your visual identity. The customer meets your organisation as the cloud provider.
Customer contracts
The customer agreement is signed with you. Edora delivers the platform behind the solution and is not a commercial counterparty to the end customer.
Services
Combine compute, storage, networking, backup and managed services into products that fit your market.
Pricing
You set the prices, service packages and margins. Edora invoices you for the agreed platform and capacity.
BILLING AND TENANTS
One system from partner to end customer
The tenant structure follows your business. You can administer your own customers and underlying units without losing the overview across the platform.
Separate tenant environments
Each customer gets its own tenant environment with its own resources, users, permissions and consumption data. That gives a clear separation between customers and keeps access management manageable.
Multiple customer levels
Build the structure around your business model, with customers, sub-customers and departments across several levels. Each level administers its own environment while you retain the overall overview.
Your own pricing
Define products, prices and margins for individual customer and partner levels. The commercial model can be adapted to different customer types and service packages.
Consumption data
Track resource consumption across the entire customer hierarchy, right down to the individual tenant environment. That provides a basis for both customer follow-up and capacity planning.
Invoicing basis
Consolidate consumption data into a clear, documented basis for your own customer invoicing. You retain control of the invoice, the prices and the commercial customer relationship.
THE PLATFORM
All of Edora Cloud behind your solution
Dedicated capacity
The underlying EU Cloud in a Box is dedicated to your partner business and sized to the agreed capacity.
Open technology
The platform is built on OpenStack, KVM and Ceph. Standardised interfaces reduce technology lock-in.
Self-service and automation
Resources are managed through the portal, API, CLI and Terraform.
European network infrastructure
Cloud Connect links capacity and locations through a closed optical N×100G backbone with distributed routing.
Continuous platform operations
Edora handles updates, monitoring and the technical operations of the underlying cloud foundation.
Documentation
Agreed architecture, operations and security documentation can feed into your supplier management and the documentation you provide to your customers.
DIVISION OF RESPONSIBILITY
Edora operates the platform. You run the business.
Edora is responsible for deployment, operations, monitoring, updates and technical escalation on the underlying platform. You own the brand, the customer relationship, onboarding, service packages, support and the commercial terms.
Service levels, support boundaries and escalation paths are set out specifically in the partner agreement.
This division of responsibility makes it possible to build a cloud business without developing and operating the platform yourself.
IMPLEMENTATION
From partner model to first customer
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01
The business
We clarify target group, services, volume and the commercial model you want.
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The infrastructure
EU Cloud in a Box is sized and placed with you or with Edora.
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The partner set-up
Brand, tenant structure, products, prices and reporting are configured.
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The launch
The first customer is onboarded together with Edora’s technical team, after which you manage further customer acquisition.