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IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC

IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC

Highly scalable, single-tenant and multi-tenant virtual machines you can launch fast for maximum network isolation and control. Intel Xeon processors help make it simple, powerful and secure.
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Logical isolation. Quick provisioning. High network performance.

Logical isolation. Quick provisioning. High network performance.

IBM Cloud® Virtual Servers for VPC offer fast-provisioning compute capacity—also known as virtual machines—with the highest network speeds and most secure, software-defined networking resources available on IBM. Built on the IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), this developer-friendly infrastructure helps drive modern workloads faster and easier with pre-set instance profiles, rapid deployment and private network control in an agile public cloud environment. Pay-as-you-use by the hour or reserve your capacity in advance for reduced costs.

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Deployment options

Deployment options

Public, multi-tenant deployment

 

Choose your profile family, including Balanced, Compute, Memory, Very High Memory, Ultra High Memory, Storage optimized and GPU/AI Accelerators. 

Explore options for confidential computing with Intel® SGX and Intel® TDX. Each family profile delivers unique, pre-set virtual server sizes to choose from, with varying capabilities for your workload requirements.

Choose monthly pay-as-you-use billing or reserve your capacity in advance for reduced costs.

Dedicated, single-tenant deployment

 

Carve out single-tenant compute capacity with dedicated host nodes and groups on IBM Cloud VPC within the console, CLI or API. Only users within your account with required permissions can create virtual servers instances on the host.

Get USD 1,000 in credits to use toward any of your new VPC resources—including all compute, network and storage components.

How it's used

Self-contained microservices SAP workloads AI workloads Confidential computing Three-tier web applications
Self-contained microservices Application scale and availability is essential. Build and dynamically add or remove virtual server instance groups with auto-scale templates and server pool control. Take the tutorial

The IBM Cloud VPC difference

Build a secure space in the public cloud. Accelerate high-production workloads with faster networking performance and deploy globally across multizone regions.

Hyperscale provisioning

Provision and deploy 1,000 virtual server instances in 4 minutes or less, consistently.

Best-in-class networking performance

Get up to 80 Gbps across general purpose virtual server profiles.

Developer-friendly

Use the REST-based API that’s aligned to industry norms, with easy integration into existing tooling.

Logically isolated

Keep granular control over which IP addresses and applications can access your resources.

Security-rich environment

Effectively maintain your regulated environment with support for KYOK, BYOK and the highest level of FIPS certification. Protect data-in-use for key applications with confidential computing from Intel® SGX®.

Cost-effective high availability

Strengthen fault tolerance and help keep key specific workloads from being under-utilized or over-utilized.

Frequently asked questions

IBM Cloud VPC explained

A VPC can help you control the size of your virtual network and deploy cloud resources whenever your business needs them. It is supported by redundant resources and highly fault-tolerant availability-zone architectures. And because the VPC is a logically isolated network, your data and applications won’t share space or mix with those of the cloud provider’s other customers. And finally, a VPC helps you take advantage of savings on hardware costs and labor time.

A VPC provides for flexible business growth as you adapt to changes in your business needs. In a digital world, customers expect uptime of nearly 100%. The high availability of VPC environments supports this goal. VPCs enjoy high levels of security at the instance level, the subnet level, or both, reducing risk across the entire data lifecycle. And with reduced costs and fewer demands on your internal IT team, you can focus your efforts on business innovation.

With IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC, you use the UI, CLI or API to quickly provision virtual compute capacity, also known as virtual server instances or virtual machines (VM). Your infrastructure is IBM Cloud VPC, which contains a number of storage, networking and security resources. All of this functions as your own virtual private cloud inside the availability and scalability of the IBM public cloud.

IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC lets you provision virtual servers across an infrastructure with the security of a private cloud and the agility of a public cloud. Your workloads and applications are logically isolated from other networks, and you can quickly provision resources with maximum scale and flexibility.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers for VPC is a software-defined private cloud, where users can deploy to multizone regions in 10 minutes or less.

IBM Cloud Virtual Server on our classic infrastructure operates on native subnet and virtual LAN (VLAN) networking to communicate within a data center and single pod. IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC operates with an additional network orchestration layer that eliminates the pod boundary, creating increased capacity for scaling instances.

VPCs achieve high levels of security by creating virtualized replicas of the security features that control access to the resources that are housed in traditional data centers. You can define virtual networks in logically isolated parts of the public cloud. You can control which IP addresses have access to which resources.

Access control lists (ACLs) are lists of rules that limit who can access a particular subnet in your VPC. The ACL defines the set of IP addresses or applications that are granted access to the subnet.

Intel® Software Guard Extensions (SGX) protects your data through hardware-based server security by using isolated memory regions that are known as encrypted enclaves. This hardware-based computation helps protect your data from disclosure or modification. Which means that your sensitive data is encrypted while it is in virtual server instance memory by allowing applications to run in private memory space. To use SGX, you must install the SGX drivers and platform software on SGX-capable worker nodes. Then, design your app to run in an SGX environment.

Intel Trust Domain Extensions (Intel TDX) is Intel's newest confidential computing technology. This hardware-based trusted execution environment (TEE) facilitates the deployment of trust domains (TD), which are hardware-isolated virtual machines (VM) designed to protect sensitive data and applications from unauthorized access. A CPU-measured Intel TDX module enables Intel TDX.

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