IBM Cloud Instance Types
Instance types offered by IBM Cloud.
Classic Infrastructure |
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| Balanced |
Public multi-tenant servers with local storage and balanced ratio of CPU and RAM. |
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Cost per vCPU: Between $24.00 and $28.25 RAM per vCPU: 2.0GB Hourly billing: yes |
CPU type: Intel Shared CPU: yes Storage included: yes |
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| Provider page for instance type: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers-classic | ||
| Plans: BL2.2x4, BL2.1x2 | ||
| Compute |
Compute profiles are best for moderate to high web-traffic workloads, such as workloads with intensive CPU demands, including production batch processing and front-end web servers. |
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Cost per vCPU: Between $24.75 and $25.00 RAM per vCPU: Between 1.0 and 2.0GB Hourly billing: yes |
CPU type: Intel Shared CPU: yes Storage included: yes |
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| Provider page for instance type: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers-classic | ||
| Plans: C1.1x1 | ||
| Memory |
Memory profiles are best for memory-intensive workloads, such as large memory-caching workloads, intensive database applications or in-memory and real-time analytics workloads. |
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Cost per vCPU: Between $41.75 and $46.50 RAM per vCPU: 8.0GB Hourly billing: yes |
CPU type: Intel Shared CPU: yes Storage included: yes |
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| Provider page for instance type: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers-classic | ||
| Variable Compute |
Burstable instances. Compute profiles are best for moderate to high web-traffic workloads, such as workloads with intensive CPU demands, including production batch processing and front-end web servers. |
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Cost per vCPU: Between $13.93 and $13.94 RAM per vCPU: 2.0GB Hourly billing: yes |
CPU type: Intel Shared CPU: yes Storage included: yes |
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| Provider page for instance type: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers-classic | ||
| Plans: U1.1x2, U1.2x4 | ||
VPC |
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| Balanced bx2 |
Balanced profiles offer a core to RAM ratio 1 vCPU to 4 GiB of RAM ratio and are best for midsize databases and common cloud applications with moderate traffic. |
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Cost per vCPU: Between $32.62 and $35.64 RAM per vCPU: 4.0GB Hourly billing: yes |
CPU type: Intel Shared CPU: yes Storage included: yes |
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| Provider page for instance type: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers | ||
| Compute cx2 |
Compute profiles offer a core to RAM ratio 1 vCPU to 2 GiB of RAM ratio and are best for moderate to high web traffic workloads. Compute profiles are best for workloads with intensive CPU demands, such as high web traffic workloads, production batch processing, and front-end web servers. |
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Cost per vCPU: Between $29.00 and $32.00 RAM per vCPU: 2.0GB Hourly billing: yes |
CPU type: Intel Shared CPU: yes Storage included: yes |
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| Provider page for instance type: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers/pricing | ||
| Plans: cx2-2x4 | ||
| Memory mx2 |
Memory profiles offer a core to RAM ratio 1 vCPU to 8 GiB of RAM ratio and are best for memory caching and real-time analytics workloads. Memory profiles are best for memory intensive workloads, such as large caching workloads, intensive database applications, or in-memory analytics workloads. |
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Cost per vCPU: Between $41.90 and $44.90 RAM per vCPU: 8.0GB Hourly billing: yes |
CPU type: Intel Shared CPU: yes Storage included: yes |
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| Provider page for instance type: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers/pricing | ||