---
name: OpenStack
domain: openstack.org
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform
descGrounded: 0.76
---

# OpenStack

An open source cloud computing platform providing infrastructure-as-a-service for virtual machines, bare metal, and containers.

**Route:** surfaced by the Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform lane's de-branded queries → competitor to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Offers the same IaaS and private-cloud infrastructure capabilities that developers and platform engineers would evaluate alongside Vercel's compute and storage services.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure

> Cloud Infrastructure for Virtual Machines, Bare Metal, and Containers

> controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources, all managed through APIs or a dashboard
