Bare metal

A bare-metal instance is a cloud instance that is not a virtual machine, which gives direct access to the CPU's virtualization extensions.

A bare-metal instance is a cloud instance that is not a virtual machine. Infrastructure compute is sold in several units, including virtual machines, bare-metal servers, containers, and nodes. The bare-metal server is the unit that reaches the tenant without a virtual machine in between. Software on a bare-metal instance has direct access to the virtualization extensions of the CPU. Owned hardware gives the same direct access.