---
title: "Create Stratus Instance"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/cloud-scale/stratus/create-stratus-instance/
description: "This page lists the Python SDK method to create a Stratus instance."
last_updated: 2026-09-08T11:07:33Z
service: Cloud Scale
type: general
related_links:
  - name: "Stratus Component Help Documentation"
    url: /en/cloud-scale/help/stratus/introduction
  - name: "Java SDK"
    url: /en/sdk/java/v1/cloud-scale/stratus/create-stratus-instance/
  - name: "JavaScript SDK Documentation"
    url: /en/sdk/javascript/v1/cloudscale/stratus/create-instance/
  - name: "iOS SDK"
    url: /en/sdk/ios/v2/cloud-scale/stratus/create-bucket-instance/
  - name: "Android SDK"
    url: /en/sdk/android/v2/cloud-scale/stratus/create-bucket-instance/
  - name: "Flutter SDK"
    url: /en/sdk/flutter/v2/cloud-scale/stratus/initialize-stratus/
  - name: "REST API"
    url: /en/api/code-reference/cloud-scale/stratus/get-all-buckets/#GetAllBuckets
---

# Create Stratus Instance

You can get the `stratus` component reference as shown below. This will not fire a server-side call. We will refer to this component instance in various code snippets of working with Stratus. The `app` reference used in the below code snippet is the [catalyst instance](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/setup/#initializing-the-sdk).

```python
stratus = app.stratus()
```