# Overview

There are many cloud vendors to help support your business. In Cloud Ctrl, each connection to a cloud vendor is called a 'Cloud Account'. Connections to a cloud vendor, can be managed on the Setting screen, Cloud Accounts are added on the tab relating to the vendor you wish to connect to.

Cloud Ctrl supports several different cloud vendors including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Alibaba Cloud and Google Cloud Platform. Each vendor provides billing and consumption data in one or more formats over a variety of integration points.

The sections below will help you work out what you need to do to connect your cloud billing data into Cloud Ctrl. Once you have added a cloud account or accounts, it usally takes up to 24 hours for the data to process into the system.

Connecting to a reseller or distributor?

Current Cloud Ctrl support direct connections to: