Software-Defined Bare Metal Cloud

Easily control the infrastructure through the drag & drop user interface or the Bigstep API.

Private Datacenter

Full power of your own private datacenter in the cloud

Hourly Pricing

Both pay-per-hour as well as reserved pricing models available

Flexible Architecture

Modify, shutdown and restore architectures in minutes, while preserving your data

Performance and Scalability

Bare metal performance and scalability with no compromise

Easy to Get Started

Fully on-demand solution with an option to reserve resources.
Use the pre-defined configurations below to get started or log in to fully customize your infrastructure.

HOURLY
No commitment

MONTHLY
Annual commitment

Bigstep Compute Instances

Bigstep Servers are fine-tuned right down to the metal. We handpick the best hardware components, make specific firmware choices, and configure BIOS settings to get the most out of each chip on that motherboard. Given that the OS resides on a distinct Compute Instance, storage is quickly scalable to eliminate cost-per-use or to update configurations without loss of data. If needed, they can be restarted within minutes. The Bigstep portfolio includes NVMe local storage servers, physical drives, and GPUs.

Pre-configured for maximum performance
Single-tenant, bare metal servers
Full control: root access, out of band and OS
One-click upgrading and scaling

Bigstep Storage

Bigstep uses a distributed Block Storage architecture, with several small-sized, independent SANs, directly connected to the racks for the lowest latency, ensuring isolation of any incident. To achieve the right mix of performance and capacity, we provide two tiers of block storage:

Solid State Storage (SSD)

For high-performance workloads - each
drive delivering up to 100 IOPS/GB

Disk Storage (HDD)

For cost-effectively storing massive data
sets - up to 10 Gb/s throughput per drive.

Bigstep DataLake

Large scale HTTP file system
Cost-effective storage
Fully HDFS compatible
Supports files of any size
High throughput and low latency

Bigstep Shared Drive

SSD or HDD cloud storage
Compatible with most hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V, Xen, KVM)
All-SSD or HDD performance
Each drive delivers up to 40 Gbps throughput
One-click, quickly scalable drives

Bigstep Network

The Bigstep Network is unmatched in performance and flexibility by any other cloud network. Cut-through switching ensures wire-speed latency and complete control over the physical ports in each switch. It's even safer and much more elastic than on-premises deployments.

The Bigstep Network is the world’s highest performance public cloud network
Wire-speed transfer achieved with cut-through switching
Isolated software-defined physical LANs created with one click
Unlimited Layer 2 broadcast domains for each user
Instance ports aggregation, providing up to 40 Gb/s to a single destination

Bare Metal Containers as a Service

Bigstep Container Service is a Docker-based service that enables users to multiplex single-tenant bare metal machines and run hundreds of independent workloads and applications on the same physical hosts. Moving to a Docker-based infrastructure does not entail rewriting your applications for microservices. Any Linux-based application can be converted to run on the container platform, instantly gaining resilience, performance, and automatic load-balancing out-of-the-box.

Frequently Asked Questions

But my app runs just fine on AWS. Why should I move to Bigstep?
Apart from typically halving the costs, we also make it so much easier to work with integrated technologies. We help you scale when you need to, by adding extra nodes and configuring them to work as a cluster.
Does Bigstep offer managed services?
Yes, we offer what we call the “Single Point of Contact” support plan. We will work with the software vendors and solve all your issues. This saves you from the back and forth between the infrastructure vendor and the software vendor when performance issues arise.
How do I connect securely to Bigstep Metal Cloud?
We offer a VPN service that connects to your current infrastructure (such as AWS or on-premises data centers). Bigstep Metal Cloud supports standard ipsec protocols and is fully compatible with most enterprise security standards.

What is the latency between Bigstep and my AWS region?
Typically, we are around 5 to 10ms away.
What’s the secret sauce behind Bigstep's 2-5x performance improvement?
Latency matters a lot in analytics. In virtual clouds, it creeps in, induced by the hypervisor, by the many layers of the virtual network, storage caching techniques, etc. We have removed every element that could introduce latency by using only bare-metal nodes, 4x10Gbps cut-through east-west optimized network, PCI-e attached NVMe storage and distributed SSD-based block storage. We are squeezing every bit of performance out of the hardware without sacrificing flexibility.
Will low latency increase my app’s performance?
Not all workloads require a low-latency setup. It all depends on the latency tolerance of your application.