Genesis Public Cloud Highlighted Features
Platform
Powered by OpenStack - full API compatibility with other OpenStack providers
Users can manage their own domain and projects
Test environment can be created upon service launch for quick start
Easy single VM deployment with Genesis VMs
Windows and Linux flavors available including Windows Server 2019
Pricing
Pricing as low or lower than competing platforms but with more capabilities and options
33% the price of Rackspace and IBM clouds
60% the price of AWS and Azure
On-demand billing with a 30-second billing interval
VMs are not billed when in a shutdown state
Compute
Highest performing Xeon Skylake processors (3.7GHz Xeon Gold)
Shared and Dedicated core flavors
Large core count and large memory flavors
Nested hypervisors possible
Live migration is used during maintenance windows
Networking
FortiGuard-protected Internet connectivity
DDoS protection
100Gbps redundant networking to each compute node
Higher throughput limits than other providers
Jumbo frame support - up to 9100 bytes
Nested SDN supported
Super fast dedicated HA load balancer instances with Layer 7 functionality
Forward and Reverse public DNS configurations with OpenStack
Lower bandwidth pricing compared to other providers
Port forwarding available for floating IPs for no additional cost
Storage
14 storage volume types
General purpose Ceph SSD storage (gp1)
Archive storage, Throughput-optimized storage, and higher performance SSD storage (gp2 and gp3)
Provisioned IOPS NVMe SSD storage with up to 40k IOPS with low-latency and high-throughput
Burstable general purpose storage with up to 100k IOPS per burst
Large burst buckets, up to 20 million I/O commands
Non-redundant volume types for ephemeral use
Object storage with S3 and Swift APIs
Inline snapshots
Server and volume backups
File level backups available with Genesis Backup