Compute · zone mum-1a

Virtual machines from ₹0.236 an hour.

AMD EPYC cores, NVMe block storage, and 50 Gbps networking on every size, from a 2 vCPU burstable box to a 64 vCPU dedicated machine. Billed by the hour. Stop the VM and the bill stops with it.

$ curl -fsSL https://excloud.dev/install.sh | bash

exc — terminal
$ exc compute create --name api-1 \
    --instance_type t1a.small --wait
✓ running — api-1 · t1a.small · mum-1a
$ exc compute list
NAME    TYPE        ZONE    STATE
api-1   t1a.small   mum-1a  running

Instance types

Two classes. Nine sizes. Every rate public.

Both classes run on AMD EPYC with EBS NVMe disks and 50 Gbps networking. The difference is how the cores are sold: t1a shares them, m1a hands them to you outright.

t1a

Burstable. For Node.js, Go, Python and other workloads that mostly wait, then spike.

InstancevCPURAMRate
t1a.micro 2 1 GiB ₹0.236/hr
t1a.small 2 2 GiB ₹0.472/hr
t1a.medium 2 4 GiB ₹0.945/hr

m1a

Dedicated. For Kubernetes, multi-tenant deployments, and databases that need the same performance at 3 p.m. and 3 a.m.

InstancevCPURAMRate
m1a.large 2 8 GiB ₹1.889/hr
m1a.xlarge 4 16 GiB ₹3.778/hr
m1a.2xlarge 8 32 GiB ₹7.556/hr
m1a.4xlarge 16 64 GiB ₹15.112/hr
m1a.8xlarge 32 128 GiB ₹30.224/hr
m1a.16xlarge 64 256 GiB ₹60.448/hr

Hourly rates; a 720-hour month on a t1a.micro comes to ₹169.92. Full details on the compute pricing page.

Which class

Burstable or dedicated, honestly.

A t1a shares physical cores with its neighbours, which is exactly why 2 vCPUs cost ₹0.236/hr. An m1a owns its cores outright. Both are good answers to different questions.

Pick t1a when the CPU mostly idles

Web servers, API backends, cron boxes, staging environments. Most application servers spend their lives waiting on the network or the database, and paying dedicated-core rates for waiting is a waste. Burstable cores soak up the spikes, and the whole 2 vCPU box runs you ₹169.92 a month.

Pick m1a when the CPU is the work

Kubernetes nodes, Postgres, anything multi-tenant, build runners. When sustained throughput matters, shared cores show up as noisy latency graphs. m1a gives you the whole core, every hour, and the sizes double cleanly from 2 vCPU/8 GiB up to 64 vCPU/256 GiB.

Picked wrong? exc compute resize moves a VM to a new type without rebuilding it.

Disks & network

The rest of the bill, also in public.

Every VM boots from an EBS NVMe volume. Storage is ₹4/GB·mo, and if the default tier isn't enough you provision exactly the throughput and IOPS you want, priced per unit. Volumes resize online, detach, outlive their VM, and snapshot for point-in-time copies.

On the network side: traffic in is free at any volume, IPv6 is free, and traffic out is a flat ₹1/GiB whether you move one GiB or a hundred thousand.

Volume docs Networking pricing

ItemSpecRate
Block storage EBS NVMe, resizable online ₹4/GB·mo
Provisioned throughput per MB/s, monthly ₹1.79/MB/s
Provisioned IOPS per IOPS, monthly ₹0.04/IOPS
Public IPv4 per address ₹0.3/hr
Public IPv6 per address free
Ingress any volume free
Egress flat, no tiers ₹1/GiB

Day two

A whole lifecycle from one binary.

The exc CLI covers create, stop, resize, snapshot, metrics, and serial logs, so the 2 a.m. incident doesn't require finding the console password. If you'd rather declare than type, the Terraform provider speaks the same API.

  • AMD EPYC, NVMe disks, 50 Gbps networking on every size
  • Region mum · zone mum-1a · Mumbai, India
  • 99.5% instance SLA, in writing
  • Online volume resize, snapshots, delete protection
exc — terminal
$ exc compute resize --vm_id 42 \
    --instance_type m1a.xlarge
resizing api-1 → m1a.xlarge (4 vCPU · 16 GiB)
✓ running — api-1 · m1a.xlarge · mum-1a
$ exc compute metrics --vm_id 42
cpu 12% · net 340 Mbps · disk 2.1k IOPS

Get started

Boot one and check the math.

A t1a.small for a full day of testing costs ₹11.33. If the numbers on this page don't match your invoice, write to us; they will.