Metal Instances are also compatible with the public cloud ecosystem, allowing users to industrialize their use of bare metal instances and power their deployments across the public cloud catalog. These are exposed through APIs (application programming interfaces) and infrastructure-as-code tools.
Users can choose the best hardware for their processing workloads through the on-demand availability and rapid deployment times of Metal Instances enabled by his native OpenStack and Terraform support. “From creating your own dedicated bare metal server, which gives you complete control over the design thanks to our unique integration model, to making metal instances available, bare metal comes full circle to support every conceivable cloud computing need. said Chief Thierry Souche. Technical Officer of OVHcloud.
Customers can choose from the following three instances of him according to their needs:
- The bm-s1 falls into the small category, featuring an Intel Xeon-E 2274G, 2x 960 GB (Gigabyte) SSDs (Solid State Drives), 32 GB RAM and priced at €0.50 (C$0.70) per hour.
- bm-m1 – Classified media, with Intel Xeon-E 2288G, 2x 960 GB SSD, 64 GB RAM, €0.85 per hour (C$1.20)
- bm-l1 – categorized as Large, with AMD EPYC 7371, 2x 960 GB SSD, 128 GB memory, priced at €1.45 (C$2) per hour
All instances are currently deployed in Canada.