The cPouta Community Cloud service is an IaaS cloud computing service. It allows its users to access, use and manage virtualized infrastructure using a self-service model. Using cPouta, customers can quickly deploy self-administered infrastructure using a simple user interface. The virtual machines are internet accessible (if you so wish). cPouta is a generic service, which can used for most things. cPouta will provide you with virtual machines and storage, which you can use to build your own service, do a quick test, have a development platform, build a data processing pipeline, or any other purpose you can think of.