Libcloud is a pure Python client library for interacting with many of the popular cloud server providers using a unified API. It was created to make it easy for developers to build products that work between any of the services that it supports.

* Avoid vendor lock-in
* Use the same API to talk to many different providers
* More than 30 supported providers total
* Four main APIs: Compute, Storage, Load Balancers, DNS
* Supports Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, PyPy and Python 3
Resource you can manage with Libcloud are divided in the following categories:

* Cloud Servers and Block Storage - services such as Amazon EC2 and
Rackspace Cloud Servers (libcloud.compute.*)
* Cloud Object Storage and CDN - 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.*)
libcloud was originally created by the folks over at Cloudkick, but has since grown into an independent free software project licensed under the Apache License (2.0).