The Open Telekom Cloud of Deutsche Telekom AG was launched in 2016 and developed into a solid cloud platform since then. The Open Telekom Cloud platform offers many services on top of the standard IaaS set, e.g. for data analytics and for serverless functions.
The technology of Open Telekom Cloud is based on the Huawei “distro” of OpenStack called Huawei FusionSphere. A promise of OpenStack powered cloud platforms is that they offer a set of consistent core services. When only developing against this set of core services, it is possible to migrate workloads between OpenStack cloud platforms with low additional development effort.
Data Centres
The Open Telekom Cloud is currently powered by 6 data centers, or, as Deutsche Telekom AG are putting it themselves, 3 twin core data centers. There are are 3 data center pairs, each forming a twin core in
- Biere and Magdeburg in Germany
- Almere and Aalsmeer in the Netherlands
- Zollikofen and Bern in Switzerland
For a complete overview of data centers, check the Data Centres Map.
Environmental Policy
According to Open Telekom Cloud Rechenzentren, Open Telekom Cloud data centres are fueled by 100% renewable energy.
Features & Services
Next to the classic IaaS services, Open Telekom Cloud is featuring Big Data services, the AI service ModelArts, an OCR service and the serverless compute engine FunctionGraph.
Conclusion
OTC is a fairly mature cloud platform with a service portfolio well above classic, core IaaS offerings. The main target group are corporate clients in the DACH region. As OTC is built mostly on open source components, lock-in is comparably low.
