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Virtual machines.

On-demand and reserved VMs across CPU and GPU shapes, with per-second billing and live resize.

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Overview

Spin up isolated virtual machines in seconds across general-purpose, compute-, memory- and GPU-optimized families. You get the control of dedicated infrastructure with the elasticity of cloud — and none of the procurement.

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

Three steps to running.

01
Pick a shape

Choose a CPU, memory or GPU family and size; provision via console, API or IaC in seconds.

02
Boot from an image

Launch from a golden image or marketplace image with cloud-init, into your private network.

03
Operate & resize

Snapshot, autoscale and resize live; metrics and logs flow to observability automatically.

What you get

Virtual machines, in full.

Right-sized shapes

Dozens of CPU and GPU families, resizable live without a rebuild or redeploy.

Per-second billing

Pay for exactly the runtime you use, with committed-use discounts for steady workloads.

Images & snapshots

Golden images, automated snapshots and point-in-time restore for reproducible provisioning.

Secure by default

Private networking, disk encryption and IAM-scoped access on every instance.

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

At a glance.

Families
General · compute · memory · GPU
Billing
Per-second, with committed-use discounts
Max vCPUs
Up to 192 per instance
Live resize
Yes, without rebuild
SLA
99.99% (multi-AZ)
Use cases

Built for real work.

01

Lift-and-shift existing servers

02

On-demand dev and test environments

03

GPU workstations for model work

Why one platform

On one model, not stitched together.

The usual stack runs virtual machines 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 — virtual machines sits next to the rest of the catalog, one identity, one bill.

The model is here

The provider that runs Aether runs your virtual machines — 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.

Can I bring my own image?

Yes — import custom images or build golden images in the registry and launch from them.

How is this billed?

Per-second of runtime, with reserved and committed-use discounts for steady workloads.

Is it isolated?

Every VM runs in your private virtual network with disk encryption and IAM-scoped access by default.

Deploy anywhere

Your boundary, your choice.

Managed
Your VPC
On-prem
Air-gapped / sovereign

Run Virtual machines on Aether Cloud.

On-demand and reserved VMs across CPU and GPU shapes, with per-second billing and live resize. Deployable managed, in your VPC, on-prem or fully air-gapped — talk to us about the configuration your workloads and your boundary require.