Why CloudToolStack

Cloud engineering is mostly context-switching. An on-call page at 2am hands you an unfamiliar ARN to parse. Wednesday morning you are sizing a Postgres instance on Azure. Wednesday afternoon you are deciding whether an S3 lifecycle rule should transition to Standard-IA or Glacier Instant Retrieval. By Friday you are writing a Terraform module that has to work on both AWS and GCP. Vendor documentation is comprehensive but slow under that kind of pressure — it answers what a service does, not which service to pick or how to use it safely.

CloudToolStack is the fast layer on top of that. Every tool is designed to answer one specific question in under a minute — paste an ARN and get its parts, describe a workload and get a rough cost across four clouds, specify subnets and get a CIDR plan that actually fits. Every guide is written like a senior engineer's notes: opinionated, dated, and honest about the trade-offs. The whole site is free, requires no account, and runs in your browser.

576 Browser-Based Tools

576 interactive tools for cloud engineers, DevOps and platform engineers, SREs, solutions architects, security engineers, and students preparing for cloud certifications. Every tool runs client-side. Inputs never leave the browser, so IAM policies, ARNs, secrets, CIDR plans, and infrastructure configurations can be pasted in without concern — we cannot see them because they never reach our servers.

Tools span seven categories: IAM and security policy builders, networking calculators and CIDR planners, compute instance finders and cost estimators, storage cost estimators and lifecycle builders, serverless configuration generators, monitoring and observability query builders, and 70 cross-provider comparison tools that evaluate equivalents (S3 vs. Blob vs. GCS vs. OCI Object Storage and so on) side by side.

201 Technical Guides & Cheat Sheets

Beyond the tools, CloudToolStack publishes 201 technical guides covering cloud architecture, security, networking, compute, storage, databases, and operations across eight providers. Each guide is dated, includes real CLI commands and Terraform configurations, and surfaces the trade-offs vendor documentation tends to gloss over. We write from production experience and revise in place when providers change pricing, deprecate services, or release meaningfully better alternatives.

Eight Cloud Providers & Cross-Cloud Comparisons

Most cloud engineers do not work on a single cloud. CloudToolStack covers AWS (130 tools, 35 guides), Azure (128 tools, 35 guides), GCP (118 tools, 35 guides), OCI (70 tools, 35 guides), plus IBM Cloud, DigitalOcean, Linode, and Alibaba Cloud. Cross-provider work is supported by 70 multi-cloud tools and 30 multi-cloud guides that compare equivalents and explain migration paths.

How We Build and Verify Content

Every claim involving a specific number, limit, region, ARN format, or price is checked against official provider documentation before publishing. Code snippets are written from scratch and tested — we deliberately do not lift examples from vendor documentation because vendor examples skip the production concerns (error handling, idempotency, least-privilege IAM, observability) that engineers actually need help with. Guides display a published date and, when relevant, a last-reviewed date. Tools that depend on volatile data display a Verified date so you can see how recent the underlying numbers are.

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Privacy by Architecture

Every interactive tool on this site executes in your browser. There is no backend API that receives your tool inputs. This is an architectural choice, not a policy promise — we cannot see what you paste into a tool because the data never crosses the network. The site source is open on GitHub so you can verify the claim by reading the code. Site-level analytics (page views, referrers) are described in the Privacy Policy.