CloudFerro Spot Virtual Machines - save up to 70%
Optimize your projects with Spot instances
Are you struggling with growing costs of cloud computing?
The rising costs of IT infrastructure have become a significant concern for businesses and organizations across various industries. As companies increasingly rely on digital infrastructure, cloud services, and cybersecurity, managing IT budgets has become more complex and expensive.
Key factors driving these growing costs include advancements in technology, increasing demand for data storage and processing, heightened security requirements, and the ongoing need for software updates and system maintenance.
Spot instances - ideal for large-scale computing and tight budgets
We know that managing IT budgets is a constant challenge, while you need to deliver service timely and efficiently. What if you could use cloud computing resources run using unused provider's capacity at highly reduced prices?
Try cloud services proven in demanding industries – space, climate research, science, and more!
Always make sure you use reliable cloud products from a trustworthy provider. CloudFerro cloud resources have been widely used for advanced and complex processing in projects of all sizes. In particular, it has been used by leading European institutions, such as:
When using CloudFerro cloud you benefit from products that have been designed, tested, and proven in the demanding industries – space, climate research, science, and more, where compliance to the highest standards is a must.
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When it comes to flexible workloads such as data processing, development, or testing, we know what works best to meet your needs - spot instances, or spot virtual machines.
CloudFerro spot virtual machines are cloud computing resources that allow you to purchase unused computing capacity at a significantly reduced price compared to regular on-demand instances.
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!
Find out how much you can save with spot instances from CloudFerro
Benefit from CloudFerro spot instances that we offer at a static price, providing you with significant savings of up to 70% compared to regular virtual machines.
See an 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.
Note that prices are NOT related to the availability of free resources at a particular moment. You may find the below figures intersting. 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
Spot instances – how to start?
To launch your first spot virtual machine, please follow these steps:
- Register an account - check out how to start
- 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
Why spot instances from CloudFerro?
Workflows best suited for spot instances
Spot instances are generally used by developers and data scientists that work on flexible tasks that can tolerate interruptions.
Spot instances are perfect for:
- 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
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.
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.
