What is Eucalyptus in a cloud environment?

Eucalyptus isan open sourcesoftwareto build privateand hybrid cloud inAmazonWeb Services (AWS).

Itstands for Elastic UtilityComputingArchitecturefor LinkingYour Programs To UsefulSystems.

Wecan create our own datacenter in a privatecloud by usingEucalyptus. Itmakes use of pooling thecomputing and storageresources to scale up
the operations.

InEucalyptus, wecreateimages ofsoftwareapplications. Theseimagesare deployed to createinstances. Theseinstancesare used forcomputing
needs.

AEucalyptus instancecan have both publicand privateip addresses.