CloudFerro Spot Virtual Machines - save up to 70%
Optimize your projects with Spot instances
Need to reduce cloud costs? Try spot VMs.
Spot Virtual Machines, or spot instances, are cloud computing resources that allow
you to purchase unused computing capacity at a significantly reduced price
compared to regular on-demand instances.
Spot instances are ideal for large-scale computing and tight budgets!
You can use cloud computing resources run on unused infrastructure at highly reduced prices
– even 70% less compared to regular virtual machines.
Save costs
Reduce your cloud processing costs up to 70% in comparison with our regular prices of on-demand virtual resources.
Scale as you wish
Benefit from high scalability. You can easily scale up and down depending on the workloads – manage your peak loads with affordable spot instances.
Always know your costs
Keep your project within budget. With CloudFerro spot instances you enjoy flat prices – no need to worry about unexpected expenses!
How much you can save?
When you buy CloudFerro spot instances, you pay a fixed price.
So how much can it cost?
Example:
The cost of a standard CloudFerro VM with 16 vCore and 128 GB RAM starts from just 0,900 EUR per hour.
In comparison, spot Virtual Machines price begins with 0,304 EUR per hour,
which is about 66% cheaper than a standard VM solution.
See figures below.
CloudFerro spot instances are:
- 3 times cheaper for high memory instances
- 2 times cheaper for GPU equipped instances
- 1.8 times cheaper for ARM based instances
Reduced and flat prices
Unlike Spot VMs from other providers, CloudFerro spot instances prices are always flat.
That means you pay the same rate, no matter how much free resources are available
at a particular moment.
Why Spot VMs from CloudFerro?
Reliable cloud proven in space sector
CloudFerro products are designed, tested, and proven in demanding industries
– space, climate research, science, and more, where compliance to the highest standards is key.
Renowned public clouds operated by CloudFerro such as Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem
with the largest Earth Observation Data repository carried out for the European Commission
and the European Space Agency and CODE-DE for German Aerospace Agency.
CloudFerro cloud resources have been widely used for advanced and complex processing in projects of all sizes.
Our services are trusted by European institutions, such as:
When to use spot VMs?
When it comes to flexible workloads such as data processing, development,
or testing, spot instances offer best saving opportunities.
Spot instances are generally used by developers and data scientists
that work on flexible tasks that can tolerate interruptions.
Workflows best suited for spot instances:
- Interruptible and time-flexible workloads
- Stateless services
- Stateful application that can tolerate a maintenance window
- High memory, GPU equipped and ARM CPU based instances
- Short life time entities
- Batch processing
- Containers and microservices
- High-Performance Computing
- CI/CD operations
- Distributed databases
- Apps run on an orchestrated environment
- Tasks that may be divided into smaller steps and executed separately
Spot instances – how to start?
To launch your first spot virtual machine, please follow these steps:
- Register an account - check out how to start
- Then add an organization to user profile - deep dive into Cloud Docs
- Buy credits choosing Pay Per Use contract - Buy services
- Activate a project WAW3-2 in Client Panel - go to Tenant Manager
- Go to Horizon platform, choose WAW3-2 and run one of many Spot Virtual Machines
Deep dive into CloudFerro Spot instances
Spot instances utilize spare cloud resources and as such, may be terminated at any time by CloudFerro. Upon deletion, all resources spawned under the VM, including storage, are deleted permanently. Spot Vms should be used as a way to decrease costs in stateless workloads that don't require uptime and can be interrupted and completed later. This is especially useful in batch processing of earth observation data that has no significant time constraints.
Example: A client was able to reduce their cloud computing costs by 65% using spot instances for non-critical workloads.
All Spot instances come fully configured (based on the selected image) and ready for use, with an administrative user account, network access, preconfigured toolboxes, and software components. If selected during creation, EODATA can be auto-mounted using S3FS. S3 credentials may also be obtained at a later time from our client portal or through the API. Volume Storage may be attached to running instances to extend the storage space available. Basic instance storage is terminated upon instance deletation. Just like normal VMs, Spot VMs can be started, stopped, rebooted, paused, and snapshotted. They may also be attached to Virtual Networks. Virtual Networks may be system-defined or user-defined. Find out more about Virtual Networks.
System-defined networks include:
- Internet network used to access the global internet.
- The EO Storage network available in Projects/Environments that are allowed access to the EODATA*.
Personal Experience: A DevOps Engineer shared that they seamlessly integrated spot instances into their CI/CD pipeline without any performance issues.
This European cloud infrastructure is based in Europe and is provided by a company with 100% European capital, which means we are only subject to local EU regulations that best protect clients’ data processed on our infrastructure.
- European norms - ISO 9001 and ISO 27001, as well as BSI.
- European data hubs - We operate 3 separate locations in Warsaw, Poland; 2 locations in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and 1 location in Italy.
- European proficiency - CloudFerro’s IaaS's are open source-based, utilizing OpenStack cloud software, Ceph network storage, and other state-of-the-art solutions.
- European law - The company and its owners are subject to the European Union law.
CloudFerro Public cloud
CloudFerro provides computing services through five unique public clouds: WAW3-2, WAW3-1, WAW4-1, FRA1-2, and CF2. Each cloud functions autonomously yet is integrated within a shared billing and user management framework. Clouds situated in the same location, such as those in the WAW3 series, share parts of power and network connectivity infrastructure. All public cloud instances grant uniform access to EODATA. While users have the flexibility to access all services across these clouds, it's important to note that the pricing, performance, and availability of certain services may differ depending on the cloud's geographical location.
