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Bare metal.

Dedicated single-tenant hardware for the workloads that need full control of the silicon.

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Overview

Provision dedicated, single-tenant servers with no hypervisor in the path — for licensing, performance isolation or hardware control that virtualization can't give you.

Where it sits
Category
Compute
Deployment
Managed → air-gapped
Governance
IAM · encryption · audit
How it works

Three steps to running.

01
Request hardware

Pick a configuration — GPU, high-memory, NVMe-dense — provisioned via the same API as VMs.

02
Get the whole machine

No hypervisor in the path; full, predictable performance and physical isolation.

03
Operate like cloud

IaC, networking and observability apply, even on dedicated silicon.

What you get

Bare metal, in full.

No hypervisor

Direct access to the full machine for maximum and predictable performance.

Single-tenant

Physical isolation for compliance, licensing and noisy-neighbour-free workloads.

Custom hardware

GPU, high-memory and NVMe-dense configurations on request.

API-provisioned

Bare metal that provisions in minutes via the same API and IaC as everything else.

API-first

Provision it in a few lines.

Every service is reachable from the same SDK, CLI and infrastructure-as-code — one identity, one bill, one audit trail across the whole catalog.

# Provision bare metal on Aether Cloud
aether compute create \
  --service bare-metal \
  --name app \
  --region us-1 \
  --deploy managed   # or vpc | on-prem | air-gapped
Specs

At a glance.

Tenancy
Single-tenant, dedicated
Virtualization
None — direct hardware
Configs
GPU · high-mem · NVMe-dense
Provisioning
API, minutes
Networking
Same VPC as everything else
Use cases

Built for real work.

01

Performance-isolated databases

02

License-bound enterprise software

03

Custom virtualization stacks

Why one platform

On one model, not stitched together.

The usual stack runs bare metal in one product, the model in another and the data in a third — and the seams between them are the cost. Aether Cloud runs it on the same platform that serves the model, governs your identity and deploys into your boundary, with the rest of the catalog one hop away.

One platform

No stitching a vector DB to one place, a warehouse to another and a model to a third — bare metal sits next to the rest of the catalog, one identity, one bill.

The model is here

The provider that runs Aether runs your bare metal — so the data and the model never leave the same governed boundary to talk to each other.

Built on demand

Need a capability that isn’t here yet? The model writes and deploys it into the same boundary — the catalog is a starting point, not a ceiling.

FAQ

Good to know.

How does this compare to bare-metal providers?

API-provisioned bare metal like it — inside the same network and IaC as the rest of the catalog.

When should I use bare metal?

For licensing, performance isolation or hardware control that virtualization can't give you.

How fast does it provision?

Minutes via API — bare metal with cloud ergonomics.

Deploy anywhere

Your boundary, your choice.

Managed
Your VPC
On-prem
Air-gapped / sovereign

Run Bare metal on Aether Cloud.

Dedicated single-tenant hardware for the workloads that need full control of the silicon. Deployable managed, in your VPC, on-prem or fully air-gapped — talk to us about the configuration your workloads and your boundary require.