The RosettaHub Supercloud¶
Operate freely and securely above the clouds.
What is a Supercloud?¶
A Supercloud is a SaaS abstraction layer that sits above multiple public and private cloud providers, unifying them under a single platform. Rather than managing each cloud independently -- learning separate consoles, APIs, billing models, and security paradigms -- a Supercloud lets organizations treat all their cloud infrastructure as one cohesive environment.
RosettaHub is The Multicloud Operating System: a Supercloud that converges the four major hyperscalers -- AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud -- plus OVH and private clouds like OCI, OpenStack, and VMware into a single operational plane. Teams interact with one platform regardless of which clouds run underneath.
Key Principle
RosettaHub does not replace your cloud providers. It operates above them, adding a unified control plane for provisioning, governance, cost management, and collaboration -- while preserving full access to each provider's native capabilities.
The Eight Barriers to Cloud Adoption¶
Organizations moving to the cloud -- or expanding across multiple clouds -- consistently encounter the same obstacles. RosettaHub's Supercloud architecture is designed to address each one directly.
| # | Barrier | Impact | RosettaHub Solution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Siloed Work Environments | Teams work in disconnected cloud consoles, duplicating effort and blocking collaboration | Unified dashboard with built-in collaboration and sharing models |
| 2 | Poor Adoption and Usability | Complex cloud consoles slow onboarding and reduce productivity | Turn-key enablement through Formations and self-service workflows |
| 3 | Scarcity of Cloud Talent | Skilled cloud engineers are expensive and difficult to hire | Self-service provisioning that requires no deep cloud expertise |
| 4 | Operations Complexity | Managing infrastructure across providers creates operational overhead | Unified CloudOps, FinOps, and GreenOps from one consistent operating plane |
| 5 | Unsustainable Carbon Footprint | Cloud usage contributes to emissions with no visibility or accountability | GreenOps tracking with carbon-aware resource management |
| 6 | Security Breaches | Misconfigured infrastructure exposes organizations to attack | Pre-configured VPCs, compliance policies, and security baselines |
| 7 | Budget Overruns | Lack of visibility leads to unexpected and uncontrolled spending | Real-time cost monitoring with budget enforcement and alerts |
| 8 | Non-Compliance | Regulatory and internal policy violations go undetected | Automated policy enforcement via Cloud Custodian integration |
How RosettaHub Addresses These Barriers¶
The eight barriers map to four solution areas that cut across the platform.
- Self-service environments and domain-specific portals with guardrails for rapid, compliant innovation
- Share templates, datasets, and pipelines securely across teams and institutions to accelerate impact
- URL-based sharing and private marketplaces eliminate "works on my machine" problems
- Automate provisioning, scaling, and optimization with policy-driven intelligence
- Align security, compliance, and operational workflows through smart automation
- Organization hierarchies map directly to funding structures, departments, and grants
- Centralized RBAC and least-privilege access across all clouds
- Automatically enforce ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, or custom frameworks without slowing innovation
- Pre-configured VPCs, landing zones, and compliance baselines reduce misconfiguration risk
- Enforce dynamic budgets in real time with granular showback/chargeback and anomaly alerts
- Spot instances, per-second billing, and automated idle shutdown reduce waste
- Track and optimize energy and carbon footprints to align cost efficiency with ESG goals
Architecture¶
The RosettaHub Supercloud is built as a layered stack. Each layer adds capabilities on top of the one below it, from raw cloud infrastructure at the base to domain-specific services and AI agents at the top.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Domain-Specific Services and AI Agents │
│ (RosettaCloud for Research, Education, and Data Science) │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ RosettaHub APIs, CLIs, SDKs, Portals, Apps, MCP Servers │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Cross-Cloud Services │
│ Unified CloudOps / FinOps / GreenOps │
│ Collaboration & Sharing Models │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ RosettaHub Formations │
│ (Customizable Service Delivery Templates) │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ RosettaHub Converged Cloud Meta-Model │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Public & Private Clouds │
│ AWS │ Azure │ GCP │ Alibaba │ OVH │ OCI │ OpenStack │ VMware │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Layer-by-Layer¶
Public and Private Clouds -- The foundation. RosettaHub connects to your existing cloud accounts across all major providers. No migration is required; you bring your own accounts and credentials.
Converged Cloud Meta-Model -- The core abstraction that normalizes differences between providers. A "machine" in RosettaHub maps to an EC2 instance on AWS, a Virtual Machine on Azure, or a Compute Engine instance on GCP -- all managed through the same interface and API.
Formations -- Customizable service delivery templates that describe what to deploy without tying you to a single provider's tooling. Formations are cloud-agnostic recipes that can target any connected provider. See Formations for details.
Cross-Cloud Services and Unified Operations -- The operational layer providing CloudOps (infrastructure lifecycle), FinOps (cost governance), and GreenOps (sustainability tracking) across all clouds simultaneously. This layer also provides collaboration and sharing models so teams can work together across organizational boundaries.
APIs, CLIs, SDKs, Portals, Apps, and MCP Servers -- The interface layer. Whether you prefer a web portal, a command-line tool, a programmatic SDK, or an AI-powered MCP server, RosettaHub exposes its full capabilities through multiple access points.
Domain-Specific Services and AI Agents -- The top layer, where vertical solutions are built on the platform. These include purpose-built services for research computing, education, data science, and enterprise IT.
Two Pillars: RosettaCloud and RosettaOps¶
The Supercloud is organized around two complementary pillars.
The RosettaCloud is the unified resource layer. It provides a single, provider-agnostic interface for managing the core multi-cloud resources teams need:
- Formations -- Infrastructure templates that deploy across any cloud
- Machines -- Unified lifecycle management for running instances
- Images -- Machine images and snapshots across providers
- Cloud Keys -- Credential management for all connected clouds
- Storages -- Object, file, and block storage from any provider
RosettaCloud lets users provision and manage cloud resources without needing to understand the specifics of each provider's console or API.
RosettaOps is RosettaHub's cloud operations product -- the governance and operations unification layer. It provides centralized control over:
- Organizations -- Hierarchical structures for teams and departments
- Users -- Identity, roles, and permissions across all clouds
- Cloud Accounts -- Connections to provider accounts with budget controls
- Projects -- Resource groupings for tracking and accountability
- Registrations -- Onboarding workflows for new users
RosettaOps ensures that every resource launched through RosettaCloud is governed by the right policies, tracked against the right budgets, and accessible only to the right people.
Two pillars, one platform
RosettaCloud answers the question "What can I deploy?" while RosettaOps (RosettaOps) answers "Who is allowed to deploy it, how much can they spend, and what policies apply?" Together they form a complete cloud operating system.
graph TB
User(["User / Team"]) --> MC & RO
subgraph MC ["RosettaCloud -- What can I deploy?"]
direction TB
F["Formations"]
M["Machines"]
S["Storages"]
I["Images"]
K["Cloud Keys"]
end
subgraph RO ["RosettaOps -- Who can deploy it?"]
direction TB
Orgs["Organizations"]
Budgets["Budgets"]
Pol["Policies"]
Comp["Compliance"]
end
MC -- "Resources governed by" --> RO
RO -- "Policies enforced on" --> MC
style MC fill:#fff3e0,stroke:#e65100,color:#000
style RO fill:#e3f2fd,stroke:#1565c0,color:#000
style User fill:#f5f5f5,stroke:#616161,color:#000Two Paths to the Cloud¶
The Supercloud serves two fundamentally different audiences within the same platform, under the same governance:
DevOps engineers, platform teams, and cloud architects who are already fluent in AWS, GCP, or Azure can use RosettaOps purely as a governance and operations layer. RosettaHub provides federated access to native cloud consoles -- users work directly in the AWS Console, GCP Console, or Azure Portal with full access to native services, while RosettaOps enforces budgets, compliance, and sandbox isolation automatically.
For these users, RosettaCloud is optional. They may still use formations for reproducible deployments and cross-cloud operations, but their primary interface is the native cloud console they already know.
Researchers, educators, students, and data scientists who do not have cloud expertise use RosettaCloud as their primary interface. Formations, one-click launches, and shared templates mean they never need to learn AWS, open a cloud console, or write infrastructure code.
The platform's value goes beyond multi-cloud: it makes the cloud accessible to a much wider audience. A researcher can launch an HPC cluster in minutes. A student can start a Jupyter lab with a single click. An educator can deploy virtual labs for an entire class at once.
Both paths, one governance model
Whether users work through native cloud consoles or through RosettaCloud, they operate within the same organizational hierarchy, subject to the same budgets, compliance policies, and access controls. RosettaOps governs all activity uniformly.
Why Multi-Cloud Matters¶
Organizations adopt multi-cloud strategies for several compelling reasons.
Avoid Vendor Lock-In¶
Relying on a single cloud provider creates dependency on that provider's pricing, availability, and product decisions. A multi-cloud approach preserves negotiating leverage and architectural flexibility.
Meet Regulatory Requirements¶
Regulations such as the EU AI Act, GDPR, and sector-specific data sovereignty rules increasingly mandate where data can be stored and processed. Multi-cloud enables organizations to place workloads in the right jurisdiction on the right provider.
Optimize Costs¶
Different providers offer better pricing for different workload types. GPU-intensive AI training may be most cost-effective on one cloud, while object storage is cheaper on another. Multi-cloud lets you place each workload where it makes the most economic sense.
Improve Resilience¶
Distributing workloads across providers reduces the blast radius of any single provider's outage. Critical services can fail over between clouds rather than being limited to regions within one provider.
Multi-cloud without the complexity
The challenge of multi-cloud has historically been the operational complexity it introduces. RosettaHub's Supercloud architecture exists specifically to give organizations the benefits of multi-cloud without the corresponding increase in management overhead.
Two Products¶
RosettaHub delivers the Supercloud through two independently sellable products:
| Product | Focus | Description |
|---|---|---|
| RosettaCloud | Multi-Cloud Resources | One-click delivery of the core resource types teams need -- compute (containers, VMs, virtual labs, HPC, big data), storage, networking, security, images, and more. All features included. The product name for the MetaCloud architecture. Native services beyond this set are reached via RosettaOps federated console access. Available on the AWS Marketplace with a free tier. |
| RosettaOps | Cloud Governance | Centralized cloud governance, cost management, compliance enforcement, and operational oversight. One API across all connected providers. |
Together, RosettaCloud + RosettaOps = the full RosettaHub platform. RosettaCloud answers "What can I deliver?" while RosettaOps answers "Who is allowed to use it, how much can they spend, and what policies apply?"
Next Steps¶
Now that you understand the Supercloud concept, continue with these pages:
- Key Concepts -- Learn the core terminology used throughout RosettaHub
- The RosettaOps Model -- Understand the governance and organizational model
- Quick Start -- Set up your account and explore the dashboard
- Formations -- Learn how to deploy infrastructure across clouds