Overview
Mind your business, not the cloud
You’ve got more important things to do than worry about your cloud infrastructure. A business to run, employees to inspire and innovations to rapidly develop, test and get to market. You can’t afford to lose focus on what matters — your customers. IBM Cloud® can help ensure your cloud computing infrastructure doesn’t get in the way of your success.
Why compute services on IBM Cloud
High-performance servers
Be online in minutes with powerful cloud servers you can configure to your workload needs.
Modern, global data centers
Get up and running quickly across 60 IBM Cloud data centers and PoPs in 6 regions.
Manage Kubernetes
Deploy independent microservices into cloud environments with platform as a service.
Serverless without compromise
Run your code with almost no limits and pay as you go, even scaling down to zero.
Infrastructure for any workload
Get the infrastructure control you want or need.
Bare metal servers
Get single-tenant cloud servers dedicated to you, unshared server resources, with hourly or monthly pricing.
Virtual private cloud
Get your own protected space in the IBM Cloud with the IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC. Expect the security of a private cloud with the agility of a public cloud.
Virtual servers for classic infrastructure
Public, dedicated, reserved and transient virtual servers enable you to provision and scale virtual machines on demand.
Containers
Build and deploy in the cloud; orchestrate with a managed Red Hat® OpenShift® or Kubernetes service.
Platform as a service (PaaS)
Take advantage of multiple, isolated, enterprise-grade Cloud Foundry platforms on demand.
Serverless
Run your application, job or container on a managed serverless platform with IBM Cloud Code Engine.
Client stories
Resources
Bare metal servers or virtual?
Why choose bare metal servers or virtual servers for the cloud infrastructure to run workloads
Kubernetes: A complete guide
All about the container orchestration tool that deploys, scales and manages containerized apps
Container orchestration explained
A combination of Docker containers, Kubernetes technology and an intuitive user experience
Try a compute service on our free tier
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