Generation 2

Standard

Balanced virtual machines with a healthy amount of memory. Optimized for simple or bursty applications such as low traffic web servers, blogs, discussion forums, CMS, small databases, dev/test servers, microservices, and repository hosting. Available with AMD or Intel CPU.

Compute

Compute optimized virtual machines with dedicated hyper-threads from the latest Intel CPUs, for workloads that rely on CPU more than RAM. Designed for CPU intensive applications like video encoding, machine learning, ad serving, batch processing, and active front-end web servers. Available with 1 or 2 disks.

Memory

High memory virtual machines, with 100% dedicated vCPU, along with a generous 8GB of memory for each vCPU. Ideal for RAM-intensive applications like high performance databases, in-memory caches, and real time big data processing. Available with 1, 3 or 6 disks.

Storage

Servers with large amounts of NVMe SSD storage and memory, along with 100% dedicated vCPU. Designed for extra large NoSQL databases (i.e. MongoDB, Elasticsearch, TimeScaleDB), monitoring software i.e. Prometheus, and other data warehouses. Available with 1 or 1.5 disks.

Dedicated

Cloud instances with dedicated CPU, SSD drives, and RAM. Designed for the widest range of mainstream or production workloads, including web application hosting, e-commerce sites, medium sized databases, and enterprise applications. Available with 1 or 2 disks.