title: Apache Libcloud is a standard Python library that abstracts away differences among multiple cloud provider APIs

## Apache Libcloud ##

Apache Libcloud is a standard Python library that abstracts away differences among multiple cloud provider APIs. 

The current version allows users to manage four different cloud resources:

* Cloud Servers - services such as Amazon EC2 and Rackspace CloudServers (**libcloud.compute.\***)
* Cloud Storage - services such as Amazon S3 and Rackspace CloudFiles (**libcloud.storage.\***)
* Load Balancers as a Service, LBaaS (**libcloud.loadbalancer.\***)
* DNS as a Service, DNSaaS (**libcloud.dns.\***)

<a href="supported_providers.html"><img src="images/providers.png" style="display: block; margin: 0 auto;"/></a>

Compute part of the library is the oldest one and it currently supports more than **26** different providers.

For a full list of the supported providers functionality, please see the [Supported Providers](supported_providers.html) page.