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Prefect Cloud or Open Source?

Prefect Cloud merges Pythonic open-source with enterprise features including enhanced scalability, governance, and observability in a secure hybrid platform.

Streamlined Governance

Create repeatable practices and policies with Prefect Cloud's permission-controlled workspaces, offering granular control at team, project, or even object levels.

Scalable Orchestration

By decoupling data engineering logic from platform engineering policies, Prefect Cloud ensures resource allocation that scales up or down as needed with appropriate access control for all workflow runs.

Secure, Reliable Architecture

Prefect Cloud's patented hybrid model requires only an outbound connection from your execution environment to the Prefect API, preserving the privacy of your source code, infrastructure, and services. Our proven platform supports over 200 million executed tasks per month.

Case Studies

Hear from Prefect Cloud Users

Case Study

Cox Automotive

Cox Automotive chose Prefect Cloud to streamline scenario planning for its 70 U.S. auction sites. With Prefect's robust security and scalability, the Cox team automated hundreds of data pipelines.

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Case Study

EF Education First

Prefect Cloud enabled EF Education First, a 10,000-employee travel learning company, to scale data orchestration. This improved workflow management and observability for data analysts and scientists throughout the organization.

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