From ever-increasing subscription prices to outages and data harvesting: we don’t like what the cloud has come to represent. So we’re redefining what an online service should be: private, optional, and free from lock-in or walled gardens.
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Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we’re renaming ours
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That’s why today Nabu Casa is renaming [Home Assistant Cloud](/cloud/) to more accurately describe what the service actually does, and to better reflect our values. Allow us to introduce:
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