IBM Cloud Instance Types

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Instance types offered by IBM Cloud.

Classic Infrastructure

Balanced

Public multi-tenant servers with local storage and balanced ratio of CPU and RAM.

Cost per vCPU: Between $24.00 and $28.25
RAM per vCPU: 2.0GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: yes
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers-classic
Tested plans: BL2.2x4, BL2.1x2
Compute

Compute profiles are best for moderate to high web-traffic workloads, such as workloads with intensive CPU demands, including production batch processing and front-end web servers.

Cost per vCPU: Between $24.75 and $25.00
RAM per vCPU: Between 1.0 and 2.0GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: yes
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers-classic
Tested plans: C1.1x1
Memory

Memory profiles are best for memory-intensive workloads, such as large memory-caching workloads, intensive database applications or in-memory and real-time analytics workloads.

Cost per vCPU: Between $41.75 and $46.50
RAM per vCPU: 8.0GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: yes
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers-classic
Variable Compute

Burstable instances. Compute profiles are best for moderate to high web-traffic workloads, such as workloads with intensive CPU demands, including production batch processing and front-end web servers.

Cost per vCPU: Between $13.93 and $13.94
RAM per vCPU: 2.0GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: yes
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers-classic
Tested plans: U1.1x2, U1.2x4

VPC

Balanced bx2

Balanced profiles offer a core to RAM ratio 1 vCPU to 4 GiB of RAM ratio and are best for midsize databases and common cloud applications with moderate traffic.
Prices include a mandatory 100GB boot disk.

Cost per vCPU: Between $32.62 and $35.64
RAM per vCPU: 4.0GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: yes
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers
Compute cx2

Compute profiles offer a core to RAM ratio 1 vCPU to 2 GiB of RAM ratio and are best for moderate to high web traffic workloads. Compute profiles are best for workloads with intensive CPU demands, such as high web traffic workloads, production batch processing, and front-end web servers.
Prices include a mandatory 100GB boot disk.

Cost per vCPU: Between $29.00 and $32.00
RAM per vCPU: 2.0GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: yes
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers/pricing
Tested plans: cx2-2x4
Memory mx2

Memory profiles offer a core to RAM ratio 1 vCPU to 8 GiB of RAM ratio and are best for memory caching and real-time analytics workloads. Memory profiles are best for memory intensive workloads, such as large caching workloads, intensive database applications, or in-memory analytics workloads.
Prices include a mandatory 100GB boot disk.

Cost per vCPU: Between $41.90 and $44.90
RAM per vCPU: 8.0GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: yes
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers/pricing

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