FluidCloud unveils 'cloud cloning' platform for multi-cloud agility
FluidCloud Unveils “Cloud Cloning” Platform to Combat Vendor Lock-In
Pleasanton, CA – July 29, 2025 – FluidCloud, a new startup specializing in portable cloud infrastructure, has officially launched its “Cloud Cloning” platform, a solution designed to empower businesses to seamlessly clone, migrate, restore, and optimize their infrastructure across diverse cloud environments in minutes. The company also announced today that it has raised $8.1 million in seed funding, led by Unusual Ventures with participation from U First Capital.
The FluidCloud Platform directly addresses the pervasive industry challenge of cloud vendor lock-in, where enterprises often find themselves inadvertently tied to a single cloud provider due to proprietary architectures and tools. This dependence can lead to significant hurdles, including slow and expensive migrations, limited negotiation power on pricing, and increased vulnerability to outages from a single vendor.
“Businesses deserve the freedom to choose the best vendor for each workload, tailored to their governance, performance, innovation, and cost needs,” stated Sharad Kumar, CEO and Co-founder of FluidCloud. “We built FluidCloud to help teams move fast, build smart, and negotiate from a position of strength. Innovation starts with freeing your infrastructure.”
The FluidCloud Platform leverages infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles to reverse-engineer existing cloud environments into a standardized infrastructure definition. This innovative approach enables “seamless” cloning, migration, and remapping across heterogeneous cloud ecosystems, including major providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as VMware environments. The platform, developed using the Go language, offers key features such as lightning-fast portability, built-in resiliency, and AI-powered unified governance.
Key Capabilities of the FluidCloud Platform:
Lightning-Fast Portability: The platform provides built-in infrastructure mapping and automation, facilitating rapid movement of workloads across regions, accounts, and cloud providers. This capability transforms what traditionally takes months of manual re-engineering into a “one-click cloning process,” enabling multi-cloud adoption in days.
Resiliency-by-Default: FluidCloud ensures native infrastructure redundancy, allowing teams to instantly spin up backup environments in the event of outages, thereby enhancing business continuity.
AI-Powered Unified Governance: The platform offers a real-time view of compliance posture, usage, drift detection, cost efficiency, and best practices across various cloud environments. AI governance platforms are increasingly vital for managing risk, ensuring compliance, and enabling responsible AI deployment, automating policy enforcement and detecting risks in real-time.
FluidCloud’s approach tackles the complexities of multi-cloud management, which often involve steep learning curves, security and compliance issues across disparate platforms, limited visibility into infrastructure, and challenges with cost management. By abstracting away cloud-specific complexities, FluidCloud aims to help IT leaders navigate sprawling, hybrid environments with greater agility.
The company’s technology employs AI-based agents to identify and replicate services, configurations, VPCs, load balancers, security rules, database endpoints, and storage volumes across different cloud platforms. This allows for the creation of a new CI/CD pipeline tailored to the target cloud provider with minimal application code tweaks.
FluidCloud’s emergence from stealth has already garnered positive feedback, with early customers like Vultr Inc. noting that the platform significantly lowers the barrier for enterprises to switch from AWS to their cloud platform. This innovation positions enterprises to negotiate more effectively with cloud providers, fostering a more competitive market.