Compute & Instances
Understanding the five plan families
CPU, RAM, disk, network profile, and price ranges across General, China Optimized, CPU Optimized, High Memory, and Storage VM families.
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Lite ships with five plan families, each tuned for a different workload shape. Every family runs on AMD silicon with DDR4 ECC REG memory and the same in-house network backbone — what differs is the CPU SKU, the storage media, the network profile, and the price-to-resource ratio.
Heads up
Plan shape is fixed at deploy time. Lite does not support resizing an existing instance — to move to a different size or family you deploy a new instance and migrate your data over. Pick the closest fit to your projected workload from the start.
At a glance
| Family | CPU | Storage | Network profile | Sizes | Monthly price range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General (EPYC) | AMD EPYC 7A23 / 7513 | NVMe SSD | General | tiny → 2xlarge (6) | $6 – $192 |
| China Optimized (EPYC) | AMD EPYC 7A23 / 7513 | NVMe SSD | China Optimized | tiny → 2xlarge (6) | $6 – $192 |
| CPU Optimized (TR) | AMD ThreadRipper PRO 5975WX | NVMe SSD | General | small → 2xlarge (5) | $18 – $288 |
| High Memory (EPYC) | AMD EPYC 7A23 / 7513 | NVMe SSD | General | small → 3xlarge (6) | $36 – $1,344 |
| Storage VM (EPYC) | AMD EPYC 7A23 / 7513 | HDD with NVMe cache | General | tiny → xlarge (5) | $10 – $56 |
General (EPYC)
The default starting point. Balanced CPU, RAM, NVMe disk, and bandwidth ratios that fit web servers, app backends, staging stacks, and most everyday production services. CPU runs on AMD EPYC 7A23 / 7513.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | Disk | Bandwidth | Traffic | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tiny | 1 | 2 GB | 25 GB | 100 Mbps | 2 TB | $6 |
| small | 2 | 4 GB | 40 GB | 200 Mbps | 4 TB | $12 |
| medium | 4 | 8 GB | 80 GB | 300 Mbps | 5 TB | $24 |
| large | 6 | 16 GB | 160 GB | 400 Mbps | 8 TB | $48 |
| xlarge | 8 | 32 GB | 320 GB | 500 Mbps | 16 TB | $96 |
| 2xlarge | 16 | 64 GB | 640 GB | 600 Mbps | 20 TB | $192 |
China Optimized (EPYC)
Same EPYC hardware and per-tier price as General, but routed over the China Optimized network profile — better latency and stability for traffic terminating in mainland China. The trade-off is a smaller monthly traffic allowance per tier (e.g. 1.25 TB at "medium" vs 5 TB on General). Combine with traffic credits if your workload is bursty.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | Disk | Bandwidth | Traffic | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tiny | 1 | 2 GB | 25 GB | 100 Mbps | 500 GB | $6 |
| small | 2 | 4 GB | 40 GB | 200 Mbps | 1 TB | $12 |
| medium | 4 | 8 GB | 80 GB | 300 Mbps | 1.25 TB | $24 |
| large | 6 | 16 GB | 160 GB | 400 Mbps | 2 TB | $48 |
| xlarge | 8 | 32 GB | 320 GB | 500 Mbps | 4 TB | $96 |
| 2xlarge | 16 | 64 GB | 640 GB | 600 Mbps | 5 TB | $192 |
CPU Optimized (Threadripper)
Backed by AMD ThreadRipper PRO 5975WX — higher per-core clocks and stronger single-thread performance than EPYC. Use this for build farms, transcoding, encoding, large analytics jobs, and anything where wall-clock CPU time is the bottleneck. Note that vCPU counts at the upper tiers (16, 32) are higher than the same-named tier in the General family for the same reason.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | Disk | Bandwidth | Traffic | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | 2 | 4 GB | 40 GB | 200 Mbps | 4 TB | $18 |
| medium | 4 | 8 GB | 80 GB | 300 Mbps | 5 TB | $36 |
| large | 8 | 16 GB | 160 GB | 400 Mbps | 6 TB | $72 |
| xlarge | 16 | 32 GB | 320 GB | 500 Mbps | 7 TB | $144 |
| 2xlarge | 32 | 64 GB | 640 GB | 600 Mbps | 8 TB | $288 |
High Memory (EPYC)
Extreme RAM-to-CPU ratios for caches (Redis, Memcached), in-memory databases, large analytics datasets, and JVM workloads with big heaps. Note the deliberately small disk allocations — High Memory tiers are sized for in-memory use, not storage. The 3xlarge tier reaches 384 GB RAM on a single instance.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | Disk | Bandwidth | Traffic | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | 2 | 24 GB | 20 GB | 200 Mbps | 5 TB | $36 |
| medium | 2 | 48 GB | 40 GB | 300 Mbps | 6 TB | $72 |
| large | 4 | 96 GB | 80 GB | 400 Mbps | 7 TB | $168 |
| xlarge | 8 | 128 GB | 150 GB | 500 Mbps | 8 TB | $336 |
| 2xlarge | 16 | 256 GB | 300 GB | 600 Mbps | 9 TB | $672 |
| 3xlarge | 16 | 384 GB | 400 GB | 700 Mbps | 10 TB | $1,344 |
Storage VM (EPYC + HDD)
HDD-backed bulk capacity with an NVMe cache layer in front — the cost-per-GB sweet spot for backups, archives, log retention, video/object storage, and large datasets that tolerate sequential access patterns. Pricing scales much more gently than the NVMe families: 8 TB of disk for $56/month at the xlarge tier.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | Disk | Bandwidth | Traffic | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tiny | 1 | 2 GB | 1 TB | 300 Mbps | 2 TB | $10 |
| small | 2 | 2 GB | 2 TB | 400 Mbps | 4 TB | $16 |
| medium | 2 | 4 GB | 4 TB | 500 Mbps | 6 TB | $28 |
| large | 2 | 4 GB | 6 TB | 600 Mbps | 8 TB | $40 |
| xlarge | 4 | 8 GB | 8 TB | 700 Mbps | 10 TB | $56 |
Info
Storage VM uses HDD media — IOPS and latency are lower than NVMe families. If you need both high capacity AND high IOPS, run a NVMe-backed compute family (e.g. General or High Memory) at a larger disk size.
Decision shortcuts
- Need a balanced default? Start with General. Almost every workload begins here.
- CPU pegged at 80%+ all day? Move to CPU Optimized — same RAM and disk shape, faster cores.
- Resident set growing past your RAM? Move to High Memory before you start swapping.
- Storing TBs of cold-ish data? Storage VM saves an order of magnitude on $/GB.
- Serving traffic primarily into mainland China? Use China Optimized regardless of compute shape.
Tip
Not sure where to start? Pick the smallest General plan, deploy your workload, and watch the live metrics for 24 hours. The dashboard makes it obvious whether you need more CPU, more RAM, or a different family entirely — and gives you a real benchmark before you commit to the production size.
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