AS7551 CLOUDCENTRAL-AS-AP Cloud Central Pty Ltd

CLOUDCENTRAL-AS-AP carries the name Cloud Central Pty Ltd of Canberra, but the AS

object and its address blocks are now registered to **Security Shift Cloud Pty

Ltd**, an Australian infrastructure-as-a-service provider run out of Adelaide.

What it's used for

• Cloud and IaaS hosting for Australian customers. The registry descriptions on the announced blocks say so plainly: one is labelled a "Canberra IAAS dynamic assignment pool", and the larger /22 is registered directly to Security Shift Cloud.
• The network is small, only a handful of /24s, which is normal for a regional cloud provider rather than a hyperscaler.

Notable

• A hosting network. The addresses are virtual-machine and cloud-platform space that cycles between tenants, so they should be treated as datacentre addresses and not attributed to any single organisation.
• Canberra is the significant location. Australian cloud providers that base capacity there are usually chasing government and public-sector workloads, which have data-residency requirements.

Interesting

• The AS name is a fossil of a previous holder. "Cloud Central" is the brand the number was registered under, while the operator behind it today is a different company. This is a common pattern, and it is the reason the registry contacts and the prefix registrations are worth more than the AS name.