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Bare Metal Server Overview

KakaoCloud Bare Metal Server is a cloud service that offers a standalone server capable of utilizing all hardware resources in a non-virtualized environment. This service provides high-performance instances and network resources. As it accesses hardware directly without going through a virtualized environment, it can achieve outstanding performance results.

Purpose and use cases​

Bare Metal Server is suitable for services that require excellent performance and stability. Especially, workloads such as AI/ML, which require large-scale data processing, can benefit from running on bare metal instances. Additionally, non-technical requirements, licensing restrictions, specific software needs, etc., may make operating on a bare metal infrastructure a more useful choice than virtualization.

  • Gaming and media services can gain stability and performance advantages when handling large-scale database tasks and high-performance computing on bare metal servers.
  • Educational and financial services need to operate in an independent infrastructure environment not dependent on external factors. In these cases, bare metal servers can operate independently without relying on an external virtualized environment.
  • Licensing issues that prevent operation on virtualized resources, such as Oracle DBMS licenses, can be resolved by using bare metal servers.

Key Features​

High-Performance Computing Environment Configuration​

  • High-performance physical server-based computing services provided in a securely isolated VPC
  • Providing a range of high-performance server configurations tailored to the user's specific needs and applications
  • Hardware virtualization support for VM creation and management

Experience the Latest in Hardware Options​

  • Offering advanced x86-64 server hardware with ultra-low latency for high-performance needs
  • Providing direct access to physical resources like memory, disk, and network
  • Features servers with up to 4.0GHz Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 3.65GHz AMD EPYC processors, 192 vCPUs, and 2,048GiB memory

Optimized for Stable Service Operation​

  • Dedicated physical resources guarantee stable, low-latency service operations, even during peak network traffic
  • Direct server security configurations can be implemented using tools such as iptables, and management of user authentication and permissions is achievable through IAM
  • Remote access enables server power management, command execution, and logs/hardware status monitoring

Ease of Management through Web Console​

  • Easy creation and management of Bare Metal Server instances with defalut settings through the web console

Getting started​

For detailed usage guides on Bare Metal Server, please refer to How-to Guides. If you are new to KakaoCloud, start with the Start section.