Why product icons matter

Product icons add visual appeal and clarity to graphics and presentations, among other advantages:

• Consistency: they give all OVHcloud products the same look and feel.
• Accessibility: they make technical concepts easy for everyone to understand.
• Efficiency: teams save time on media projects thanks to OVHcloud’s library of ready-to-use icons.

Where do I find product icons?

You can find product icons in our Brand Hub, a central repository of OVHcloud graphics. Need a custom icon? This library is packed with options, adapted to your needs, to download and use.

There are over 100 product icons in the OVHcloud library, sorted into Compute, Network, Storage, and many other categories. They represent a broad selection of OVHcloud solutions, making it easy to create custom visual aids that match your specific needs. The main icon categories include:

• Compute: for computing resources (dedicated servers, VPS, Bare Metal servers).
• Network: for network components (load balancers, VPN, and firewalls).
• Storage: for storage solutions (Object, Block, and File Storage).
• Telephony: for solutions like VOIP, SIP Trunk or Fax, and SMS.
• Containers: for Kubernetes, Docker and other container orchestrators.
• Databases: for managed databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and more).
• AI & Machine Learning: for AI tools and platforms.
• Identity & Security: for WAF, IAM, DDoS protection and other cybersecurity tools.

Unlock the full potential of product icons

Our product icons are versatile and designed for maximum visual and technical impact, mainly in:

• Architectural layouts: product icons, integrated with tools such as Excalidraw, Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, or Diagrams.net clearly and fully illustrate complex infrastructure, or customer solutions.
  
  
• Standard repositories: the standard graphics available on the OVHcloud internal Confluence platform also include product icons, giving it a refined and uniform look.

Tips for using product icons

Here’s how to get the most out of our product icons:

• Visual simplicity: don’t cram too much into your visuals; a few key icons should do the trick.
• Accessibility: Pick the right colours and contrast levels to make your media more readable for everyone.
• Consistency: always use the official OVHcloud icons for a well-balanced brand image.

Documentation and training materials

Generated icons aren’t just useful for architectural design; they are also effective educational and communication resources. No matter your role—trainer, technical writer, product manager, or marketing manager—you can use these icons to present your content plainly and professionally.

• Clearer understanding: product icons in well-structured visuals make it easier for users (new and existing), partners, and internal teams to grasp technical concepts.
• Highly engaging materials: quality visuals make for better user guides, product overviews, and technical articles, to capture your audience and get your message across.
• Faster training and onboarding: new employees or customers can quickly learn about and navigate the OVHcloud ecosystem and universes, thanks to standardised icons.
• Strong brand and professional image: incorporating OVHcloud icons into your media elevates its visual appeal, creating a unified and professionallook—aligned with market standards.

From technical presentations to online training and sales pitches, product icons are a universal language that effectively communicate information and showcase OVHcloud’s expertise. Beyond technical charts, icons are also useful in user guides, training materials, technical articles, and marketing presentations.

Conclusion

With product icons, you can organise, document, and structure your work more efficiently, making it resonate every step of the way. Whether you’re sketching out ideas for customers, working with your team, or documenting your projects, product icons make your message sharper and way more memorable.

Are you ready? The digital world around us is changing every day. It is shaping and reimagining how people work, how businesses operate, how governments govern, and people connect. This presents a tremendous opportunity and new challenges for technologists and entrepreneurs. At the heart of this change is data—management, security, and sovereignty are just some requirements for data and the infrastructure where it sits. We believe an open cloud plays a key role in building this new world based on data. With open standards, an open community, and the wisdom of a vibrant ecosystem—together, we produce a better, stronger outcome. An outcome where many more can leverage the technology, and where many more can benefit from building a better way.

As the alternative cloud provider, our goal is still to deliver excellent products, performance and support across all our offerings – and now importantly, to align OVHcloud to market demands and growth. At OVHcloud we commit to continue providing the innovation for freedom that has always given us the purpose and drive to serve our 1.5M customers around the world.

Over the next 12-months we will launch the OVHcloud brand, starting with our notable OVHcloud Summit event in Paris.

Our aim is to provide a simple, multi-local, open and transparent cloud that keeps the users, coders, developers, partners, administrators and operators in control of their data. We realize that the change in our visual identity is a process that can involve many steps and take time. We appreciate your kind support.