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# From the ZCP team

Product announcements, engineering posts, tutorials, and stories from a Canadian-owned cloud platform.

## More posts

Announcements

July 14, 2026

### [Open-Sourcing Our Apache CloudStack Terraform Modules](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/open-source-terraform-modules-apache-cloudstack)

We packaged the Terraform we write for Apache CloudStack into reusable modules, scrubbed the internal specifics, and released them under MIT. Eight modules cover networking, compute, storage, Kubernetes, and more. Validate them with no credentials.

Ditah Kumbong

3 min read

Engineering

July 11, 2026

### [AWS Cost Guardrails for AI and Cloud Teams](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/aws-cost-guardrails-bedrock-budgets-scp)

A practical pattern for AWS Organizations cost control using AWS Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, service-specific Bedrock alerts, and an emergency SCP stop switch.

Staff at ZSoftly

8 min read

![The zsoftly/zcp provider page on the OpenTofu registry, showing version 0.1.0, the MIT license, and the required\_providers usage snippet.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/zcp-provider-opentofu-registry.webp)

Engineering

July 9, 2026

### [Building the ZCP Terraform / OpenTofu Provider](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/building-the-zcp-terraform-opentofu-provider)

ZCP infrastructure is now code. How we built our provider on the CLI SDK, what live testing taught us about state, networks, and public IPs, and why we ship to both registries with signed releases.

Ditah Kumbong

5 min read

Announcements

May 20, 2026

### [Introducing ZSoftly Cloud Platform](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/introducing-zsoftly-cloud-platform)

ZCP is an independent sovereign cloud running on bare metal we own, with two live regions (YUL-1, YOW-1) and five more planned across North America and Europe.

Ditah Kumbong

4 min read

Engineering

May 16, 2026

### [Cloud service models: MaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS at a glance](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/cloud-service-models-explained)

A short guide to the four-layer cloud stack: Metal, Infrastructure, Platform, and Software as a Service, with ZCP services mapped to each layer.

ZSoftly Team

2 min read

![Diagram of the ZCP managed DNS architecture: two authoritative nameservers in separate regions on independent upstream networks, both serving the same shared record set behind a rate-limit and query-filter layer.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/dns-on-zcp.svg)

Tutorials

May 16, 2026

### [Managed DNS on ZCP: how it works and how to set up a domain](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/dns-on-zcp)

A walkthrough of the managed DNS service on ZCP, the two-nameserver architecture behind it, and the portal steps to create and manage a zone.

ZSoftly Team

13 min read