CloudBalkan: CloudBalkan Data Center

CloudBalkan is a cloud infrastructure facility operated by StandByte EOOD in Sofia, Bulgaria under the CloudBalkan brand. The official CloudBalkan website states that the company operates in its own private, proprietary built data center and that its new data center opened in 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The reviewed official sources provide a dedicated data center page and company contact information, but they do not publish a formal facility street address for the data center itself. CloudBalkan’s official contact page lists Budapeshta 66, Sofia for administrative, technical, and sales contacts, while the data center page identifies only Sofia, Bulgaria as the facility location. Facility specific floor area, rack count, and named certification scope are Not publicly disclosed.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

1. Facility identity and opening date (operator stated, facility level): CloudBalkan states that its new data center opened in 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria. A 2018 official news post says the new facility was named CB-SOF-02 (Dry River) and had just opened racks in Sofia.
2. Facility ownership model (operator stated, facility level): CloudBalkan states it operates in a private, proprietary built, state of the art data center, rather than relying on conventional colocation facilities.
3. Tier statement (operator stated, facility level): CloudBalkan’s About Us page describes its Sofia data center as a modern Tier II facility.
4. Power architecture (operator stated, facility level): CloudBalkan states the facility has dual redundant power supply, triple internal backup power supply, and three independent power feeds delivering energy through managed power distribution.
5. Cooling architecture (operator stated, facility level): CloudBalkan states the site has redundant cooling. Its 2018 facility launch note says a combination of water cooling and air conditioning systems is used, with a two stage water chilling system removing heat directly from CPUs and air conditioning supplying clean cold air. The About Us page also says water cooled server racks improve service quality and power efficiency.
6. Telemetry and monitoring (operator stated, facility level): CloudBalkan states its data center uses advanced data center telemetry with more than 240 sensors, and the 2018 launch post cites more than 252 sensors monitoring temperatures and environment conditions.
7. Storage and internal network platform (operator stated, organization level / facility platform): CloudBalkan states its data center platform includes a high speed 40 Gbps multiple redundant storage network supporting cloud server availability and low latency scalable storage. Facility specific rack by rack deployment is Not publicly disclosed.
8. Operational continuity model (operator stated, facility level): CloudBalkan states alerts can trigger automated procedures and that cloud machines may be live migrated to redundant capacities with zero downtime while engineers investigate issues.

🔐 Security & Compliance

1. Physical security baseline (operator stated, facility level): CloudBalkan states the facility includes physical security and video surveillance.
2. Monitoring and operations control (operator stated, organization level / facility platform): CloudBalkan states its support team proactively manages infrastructure and that the Network Operations Center supervises cloud operations and provides 24×7 support.
3. Fire protection (operator stated, facility level): CloudBalkan states the facility includes fire protection. More detailed fire detection method, suppression agent, and protected zone design are Not publicly disclosed.
4. Detailed physical security controls such as biometrics, mantraps, guard force composition, and cabinet level locking policy (facility specific): Not publicly disclosed. The reviewed official pages do not publish these details.
5. Compliance certifications (facility specific ISO, SOC, PCI DSS, Uptime certificate IDs, audit scope): Not publicly disclosed. Although CloudBalkan uses a Tier statement on its site, the reviewed official pages do not publish named certification documents, certificate IDs, or audit scope.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

1. Network infrastructure control (operator stated, facility level): CloudBalkan states the site includes proprietary network infrastructure.
2. Cloud service connectivity model (operator stated, organization level): CloudBalkan publishes Cloud Servers, Cloud Workstation, Cloud Storage, Cloud DNS, and Cloud Routers as service categories delivered from its infrastructure platform.
3. Facility interconnection context (third party directory): No reviewed source identified a dedicated CloudBalkan facility record in PeeringDB. The main Sofia interconnection campus shown in PeeringDB is Sofia Data Center (SDC), but the reviewed sources do not confirm that CloudBalkan’s proprietary site is located inside that campus. Facility specific networks present and on net carrier roster are therefore Not publicly disclosed.
4. Carrier neutrality (facility specific): Not publicly disclosed. The reviewed official pages do not explicitly describe CloudBalkan’s proprietary data center as carrier neutral.
5. Meet me room / cross connect products / pricing (facility specific): Not publicly disclosed.
6. Internet Exchange (facility specific): Not publicly disclosed. No reviewed official or third party source confirms that the CloudBalkan facility operates an Internet Exchange.

💼 Who It Serves

1. Organizations needing cloud infrastructure (operator stated, organization level): CloudBalkan states its mission is to deliver infrastructure services and publishes Cloud Servers for a wide range of applications and services.
2. Customers running production workloads (operator stated, organization level): CloudBalkan states Cloud Servers are intended for web hosting, web applications, development environments, and flawless production environments.
3. Users needing cloud desktops and storage (operator stated, organization level): CloudBalkan publishes Cloud Workstation and Cloud Storage as part of its service platform.
4. Customers across the Balkans and beyond (operator stated, organization level): CloudBalkan states it started with the mission to build an infrastructure provider in the Balkans region and now delivers services worldwide to thousands of users.