Zoho opens its self-built cloud as Catalyst serverless platform, free for students
RoboBalaji · x · 2026-10-01
Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu shared that the company built its entire cloud stack in-house from early on — databases, identity, messaging, search, storage and compute — instead of relying on AWS or Google Cloud.
That infrastructure is now offered to external developers as Catalyst, a serverless platform already seeing adoption beyond the Zoho ecosystem. Vembu says Zoho is investing heavily in Catalyst and making it free for students so they can build and deploy real applications without worrying about infrastructure costs.
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