CloudBolt Launches No-Cost Edition of Its Cloud Management Platform

The full platform capabilities are now free on a team’s first 100 resources, paired with a redesigned interface that makes CloudBolt CMP easy to onboard and fast to scale

ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CloudBolt Software, a recognized leader in hybrid cloud management and Kubernetes optimization, today announced a no-cost edition of its cloud management platform, CloudBolt CMP, alongside a redesigned user experience. Teams can now run the full platform on up to 100 resources (any cloud object the platform manages including VMs, storage, clusters, databases, and networks) in their own environment, for free. CloudBolt CMP unifies control across public, private, and hybrid clouds, giving teams a single platform with consistent governance, visibility, and cost management wherever workloads run.

Two barriers have slowed enterprise adoption of cloud management platforms. Teams have had to allocate costs before they could validate the platform in their own environment, and the platforms themselves have a reputation for being complex to learn. A 2026 Gartner survey found that 67% of B2B buyers prefer a rep-free buying experience, a sign of how much buyers want to evaluate a product on their own before committing.

“Engineers don't evaluate software by talking to a sales rep; they evaluate it by trying it on real infrastructure in an environment that reflects their reality. The difficulty of securing budget before you even know what a product can do is what limits most users from trying new tools,” said Yasmin Rajabi, chief operating officer at CloudBolt. “We’d rather earn the right to a conversation and let the product set the first impression.”

A New Interface, the Same Platform Underneath

The redesign of CMP lowers the barrier for teams that are not deep automation experts to quickly get value out of the box. A rebuilt interface modernizes CMP in a more intuitive way, and its natural-language interface, built on the Model Context Protocol that CloudBolt introduced earlier this year, lets people work by describing what they want instead of navigating the platform by hand. For enterprises, it offers a robust governance layer for AI-driven infrastructure work, inside the platform’s existing permissions and controls.

“I’ve spent a decade building CMP for the people who run large hybrid cloud estates. It’s a deep platform, and that depth came with a learning curve; you had to understand a lot of it before you could do much,” said Alexandre “Auggy” da Rocha, co-founder at CloudBolt. “The redesign and the natural-language interface take that requirement away. The permissions, guardrails, and workflows underneath are exactly the same. You just don’t have to know where everything lives to use them.”

Getting Started For Free

The free edition is NOT a stripped-down version of CMP. Teams get the same core capabilities available to enterprise customers, including:

• Self-service provisioning
• Governance and role-based access
• Full resource lifecycle orchestration
• Natural-language interface
  
  

The difference is the number of resources a team can manage, so a team can prove the platform on real work and build the business case before committing. A team weighing a move off VMware, or evaluating OpenShift, can put CloudBolt CMP to work as part of that decision.

Availability

CMP’s redesigned interface and free edition are available today. To get started, visit CloudBolt’s download page.

About CloudBolt

CloudBolt Software helps enterprises turn cloud complexity into operational advantage by bringing intelligent automation, governance, and optimization to public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Its portfolio combines industry-leading cloud management and orchestration with AI-driven Kubernetes rightsizing and optimization, enabling organizations to actively control and optimize cloud usage as it happens. CloudBolt empowers platform engineering, IT operations, and finance teams with the insight and automation they need to run cloud environments at scale, efficiently, continuously, and with confidence. Learn more at www.cloudbolt.io.

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