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Dedicated cloud
Dedicated cloud
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08 October 2024
How Dedicated Cloud Differs from Public Cloud
What dedicated cloud is for, what you gain and what you give up when you choose to deploy your workload on single-tenant cloud infrastructure.
25 June 2024
What to Do When You Can't Rely on Public CI Runners
What self-hosted runners give you that public ones don’t, and how to make the self-hosted part a whole lot easier.
06 March 2024
An Infrastructure to Supercharge an Ecommerce Engine
How dedicated cloud helps solve for fluctuating demand and other challenges of selling goods online while keeping infrastructure costs under control.
28 February 2024
Building Efficient Test Environments On Dedicated Cloud
Teams that need full control of the infrastructure underneath their test environments have an option that doesn’t require their own data center.
18 January 2024
A Cloud for Workloads Where Infrastructure Matters
We’re adding new features, resources and availability regions to make the power of Equinix dedicated cloud accessible to more users.
06 December 2023
When Your CI Pipeline Needs More Than the Default
Three developer teams whose builds, tests and distribution work best—or only work—on dedicated cloud.
15 November 2023
Why and When Dedicated Cloud Is the Way
More than the raw performance of bare metal, it provides the advantages of public clouds without the drawbacks of shared, general-purpose infrastructure.
11 October 2023
Why Build Your Proof of Concept on Dedicated Cloud?
POCs for workloads with no room for compromise on performance and control are best served by non-virtualized, single-tenant environments that can be provisioned on demand.
Recent authors
Jacob Smith
VP, Digital Services Strategy & Marketing
Zac Smith
Global Head, Edge Infrastructure Services
Adam Rothschild
Director, Network Engineering
David Laube
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Sam Machiz
Director, Equinix Metal Solutions
Steve Smyser
VP, Equinix Metal Finance & Commercial Solutions
Full list of authors