The Pega Cloud Choice Guarantee Program ensures that your choice for a cloud platforms deployment remains flexible as your business and cloud technology evolves. Which cloud platform is right for your organization depends on your business and technical needs. Pega offers two models for deploying Pega applications on a cloud system:

• Pega Cloud Services: Pega provides your cloud service, which is optimized for running Pega applications in a cloud environment. Pega Cloud is the fastest time to value.
• Client managed cloud: Pega clients own, set up, manage, monitor, and control the cloud environments that run Pega applications. To explore the latest information about the Cloud Choice deployment solution using Kubernetes across client-managed environments, see Client managed cloud.

Pega supports deployments on virtual machines running Pega Platform™ 8.1 or earlier, in the following environments:

• Pega Platform on Microsoft Azure
• Pega Platform on Amazon Web Service
• Pega Platform on Google Cloud Platform
• Pega Platform as a Pivotal Cloud Foundry service broker