Cloud Providers

Hetzner

Hetzner is an award-winning provider, born and based in Germany. They are one of our favorite providers because they are reliable and cost effective. Most of the time, you get twice the CPU & RAM for the same price compared to other providers.

We also love Hetzner for their commitment to promoting an energy-efficient use of the internet. All of their datacenters are powered by renewable energy.

20 TB of bandwidth is included with all VM sizes.

Supported Services

Compute ✅
Private network ✅
Firewall ✅
Volumes ✅
Floating IP

✅
Snapshots

✅

Supported Regions

Continent Country City Datacenter
Europe Germany Falkenstein FSN1
Europe Germany Nuremberg NBG1
Europe Finland Helsinki HEL1
America USA Ashburn, Virginia ASH1

VM Sizes

Size Cores Ram HDD Bandwidth
SMALL-1C-2G 1 2GB 20GB NVME 20 TB
MEDIUM-2C-4G 2 4GB 40GB NVME 20 TB
LARGE-2C-8G 2 8GB 80GB NVME 20 TB
XLARGE-4C-16G 4 16GB 160GB NVME 20 TB
2XLARGE-8C-32G 8 32GB 240GB NVME 20 TB
3XLARGE-16C-64G 16 64GB 360GB NVME 20 TB
4XLARGE-32C-128G 32 128GB 600GB NVME 20 TB

 

Netcup

Netcup is a well-established German hosting provider known for their high-performance virtual servers at competitive prices. They offer powerful AMD EPYC-based infrastructure with excellent value, especially in Europe. Netcup provides fully managed services with included remote backups, making them a solid choice for teams looking for reliability without the operational overhead.

20 TB of bandwidth is included with all VM sizes.

Supported Services

Service Status
Compute ✅
Private Network ✅
Firewall ✅
Volumes ❌
Floating IP ❌
Snapshots ❌
Remote Backups ✅ (7 included)

Supported Regions

Continent Country City Datacenter
Europe Germany Nuremberg NBG
North America United States Manassas, Virginia MNS

VM Sizes

All VMs run on AMD EPYC 9645 processors and include 20 TB bandwidth and 7 remote backups.

Europe (Germany - Nuremberg)

Size Cores RAM Storage Monthly Price
MEDIUM-2C-4G 2 4 GB 60 GB NVMe $14
LARGE-4C-8G 4 8 GB 100 GB NVMe $26
XLARGE-8C-16G ⭐ 8 16 GB 200 GB NVMe $49
2XLARGE-16C-32G 16 32 GB 400 GB NVMe $99
3XLARGE-16C-64G 16 64 GB 600 GB NVMe $149

North America (United States - Manassas)

Size Cores RAM Storage Monthly Price
MEDIUM-2C-4G 2 4 GB 60 GB NVMe $16
LARGE-4C-8G 4 8 GB 100 GB NVMe $29
XLARGE-8C-16G ⭐ 8 16 GB 200 GB NVMe $59
2XLARGE-16C-32G 16 32 GB 400 GB NVMe $119
3XLARGE-16C-64G 16 64 GB 600 GB NVMe $179

⭐ = Best Value

Features

Digital Ocean

Digital Ocean is a great cloud provider with a large number of regions and datacenters available. They provide good network and overall reliability.

Supported Services

Compute ✅ High Frequency CPU
Private network ✅
Firewall ✅
Volumes ✅
Floating IP ✅
Snapshots

✅

Supported Regions

Continent Country City Datacenter
Asia Singapore Singapore sgp1
Asia India Bangalore blr1
Europe Netherlands Amsterdam ams2
Europe Netherlands Amsterdam ams3
Europe United Kingdom London lon1
Europe Germany Frankfurt fra1
North America USA New York City nyc1
North America USA New York City nyc2
North America USA New York City nyc3
North America USA San Francisco sfo1
North America USA San Francisco sfo2
North America USA San Francisco sfo3
North America Canada Toronto tor1

VM Sizes

Size Cores Ram HDD Bandwidth
MICRO-1C-1G 1 1GB 25GB NVME 1 TB
SMALL-1C-2G 1 2GB 50GB NVME 2 TB
MEDIUM-2C-4G 2 4GB 80GB NVME 4 TB
LARGE-4C-8G 4 8GB 160GB NVME 5 TB
XLARGE-8C-16G 8 16GB 320GB NVME 6 TB

 

AWS Lightsail

AWS is the largest cloud provider with one of the best network available and a large number of regions and datacenters.

Supported Services

Compute ✅
Private network ✅
Firewall ✅
Volumes ✅
Floating IP ✅
Snapshots

✅

SMTP Services are not supported in AWS LIghtsail (Mailcow, Postal, etc.).

Supported Regions

Continent Country City Datacenter
Asia India Mumbai ap-south-1
Asia South Korea Seoul ap-northeast-2
Asia Singapore Singapore ap-southeast-1
Asia Australia Sydney ap-southeast-2
Asia Japan Tokyo ap-northeast-1
Europe Germany Frankfurt eu-central-1
Europe Ireland Dublin eu-west-1
Europe United Kingdom London eu-west-2
Europe France Paris eu-west-3
Europe Sweden Stockholm eu-north-1
North America USA Ohio us-east-2
North America USA N. Virginia us-east-1
North America USA Oregon us-west-2
North America Canada Montreal ca-central-1

VM Sizes

Size Cores Ram HDD Bandwidth
MICRO-1C-1G 1 1GB 40GB SSD 2 TB
SMALL-1C-2G 1 2GB 60GB SSD 3 TB
MEDIUM-2C-4G 2 4GB 80GB SSD 4 TB
LARGE-2C-8G 2 8GB 160GB SSD 5 TB
XLARGE-4C-16G 4 16GB 320GB SSD 6 TB
2XLARGE-8C-32G 8 32GB 640GB SSD 7 TB

 

Vultr

VULTR is a great cloud provider with a large number of regions and datacenters available. They provide good network and overall reliability.

Supported Services

Compute ✅ High Frequency CPU
Private network ✅
Firewall ✅
Volumes ✅
Floating IP ✅
Snapshots

✅

Supported Regions

Continent Country City Datacenter
Asia Germany Seoul icn
Asia Japan Tokyo nrt
Asia Singapore Singapore sgp
Asia Australia Sydney syd
Europe Netherlands Amsterdam ams
Europe France Paris cdg
Europe Germany Frankfurt fra
Europe United Kingdom London lhr
North America USA Atlanta atl
North America USA Dallas dfw
North America USA New Jersey ewr
North America USA Los Angeles lax
North America USA Miami mia
North America USA Chicago ord
North America USA Seattle sea
North America USA Silicon Valley sjc
North America Canada Toronto yto

VM Sizes

Size Cores Ram HDD Bandwidth
MICRO-1C-1G 1 1GB 32GB SSD 1 TB
SMALL-1C-2G 1 2GB 64GB SSD 2 TB
MEDIUM-2C-4G 2 4GB 128GB SSD 3 TB
LARGE-4C-16G 4 16GB 384GB SSD 5 TB
XLARGE-8C-32G 8 32GB 512GB SSD 7 TB
2XLARGE-12C-48G 12 48GB 768GB SSD 8 TB

 

Linode

Linode is a great cloud provider with a large number of regions and datacenters available. They provide good network and overall reliability.

Supported Services

Compute ✅
Private network ✅
Firewall ✅
Volumes ✅
Floating IP ✅
Snapshots

❌

Supported Regions

Continent Country City Datacenter
Asia India Mumbai ap-west
Asia Australia Sydney ap-southeast
Asia Singapore Singapore ap-south
Asia Japan Tokyo ap-northeast
Europe United Kingdom London eu-west
Europe Germany Frankfurt eu-central
North America Canada Toronto ca-central
North America USA Dallas us-central
North America USA Fremont us-west
North America USA Atlanta us-southeast
North America USA Newark us-east

VM Sizes

Size Cores Ram HDD Bandwidth
MICRO-1C-1G 1 1GB 25GB SSD 1 TB
SMALL-1C-2G 1 2GB 50GB SSD 2 TB
MEDIUM-2C-4G 2 4GB 80GB SSD 4 TB
LARGE-4C-8G 4 8GB 160GB SSD 5 TB
XLARGE-6C-16G 6 16GB 320GB SSD 8 TB
2XLARGE-8C-32G 8 32GB 640GB SSD 16 TB
3XLARGE-16C-64G 16 64GB 1280GB SSD 20 TB
4XLARGE-24C-128G 24 128GB 2560GB SSD 20 TB

 

BYOVM (Bring Your Own VM)

You can also deploy to your own cloud account from any cloud provider (Azure, GCP, Alibaba, Oracle, etc.) or from a VM hosted on-premises. You handle your provider relationship while we manage things. image.png

Pricing

Pricing is based on the specification of the VM you are connecting to: 

$5 per vCPU, $2.50 per GB of RAM, and $0.25 per 10 GB of disk.

Example: if you are connecting a VM with 2 vCPU + 4GB RAM + 40GB Disk, the cost per month will be

(5*2) +  (2.5*4) + (0.25*4) = ~$21/mo

Price per hour is then calculated like this: $21/730h = $0.02876/h

You can calculate your VM pricing using our tool here: https://elest.io/bring-your-own-vm

AWS EC2 or BYOAWS (Bring Your Own AWS Account)

AWS is the largest cloud provider, boasting one of the best networks available, as well as a vast number of regions and data centers.

Supported Services

Compute ✅
Private network ✅
Firewall ✅
Volumes ✅
Elastic IP ✅
Snapshots

✅

SMTP Services are not supported in BYOAWS (Mailcow, Postal, etc.).

Supported Regions

Continent Country City Datacenter
Africa South Africa Cape Town af-south-1
Asia Australia Sydney ap-southeast-2
Asia Australia Melbourne ap-southeast-4
Asia Hong Kong Hong Kong ap-east-1
Asia India Mumbai ap-south-1
Asia India Hyderabad ap-south-2
Asia Indonesia Jakarta ap-southeast-3
Asia Japan Tokyo ap-northeast-1
Asia Japan Osaka ap-northeast-3
Asia Korea Seoul ap-northeast-2
Asia Singapore Singapore ap-southeast-1
Europe France Paris eu-west-3
Europe Germany Frankfurt eu-central-1
Europe Ireland Dublin eu-west-1
Europe Italy Milan eu-south-1
Europe Spain Spain eu-south-2
Europe Sweden Stockholm eu-north-1
Europe Switzerland Zurich eu-central-2
Europe United Kingdom London eu-west-2
Middle East Bahrain Bahrain me-south-1
Middle East United Arab Emirates UAE me-central-1
North America Canada Montreal ca-central-1
North America USA N. Virginia us-east-1
North America USA Ohio us-east-2
North America USA N. California us-west-1
North America USA Oregon us-west-2
South America Brazil Sao Paulo sa-east-1

VM Sizes

Size Cores Ram HDD
MICRO-2C-1G 2 1GB 10 GB to 10 TB
SMALL-2C-2G 2 2GB 10 GB to 10 TB
MEDIUM-2C-4G 2 4GB 10 GB to 10 TB
LARGE-2C-8G 2 8GB 10 GB to 10 TB
XLARGE-4C-16G 4 16GB 10 GB to 10 TB
2XLARGE-8C-32G 8 32GB 10 GB to 10 TB
3XLARGE-16C-64G 16 64GB 10 GB to 10 TB
4XLARGE-32C-128G 32 128GB 10 GB to 10 TB


Microsoft Azure or BYO-AZURE (Bring Your Own Azure Account)

This guide explains the Azure permissions and configuration required for customers who want to deploy Elestio services in their own Azure subscription. By connecting your Azure account, Elestio will create and manage resources directly in your Azure environment.

Prerequisites

Before connecting your Azure subscription to Elestio, ensure you have:

Required Azure Permissions

Minimum Required Role

Why:
This role allows Elestio to create, manage, and delete resources in your subscription while preventing it from modifying access controls or role assignments.

Alternative: Custom Role (Advanced)

If your organization requires granular permissions, you can create a custom role with the following permissions:

{
  "Name": "Elestio Service Manager",
  "Description": "Custom role for Elestio to manage cloud resources",
  "Actions": [
    "Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourceGroups/*",
    "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/*",
    "Microsoft.Compute/disks/*",
    "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/*",
    "Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/*",
    "Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups/*",
    "Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/*",
    "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/*",
    "Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/*",
    "Microsoft.RecoveryServices/register/action",
    "Microsoft.Authorization/locks/*"
  ],
  "NotActions": [],
  "AssignableScopes": [
    "/subscriptions/{your-subscription-id}"
  ]
}

What Resources Will Elestio Create?

When you deploy services through Elestio using your Azure subscription, the following resources are created:

Resource Type Purpose
Resource Groups Logical containers for all resources (elestio-{region})
Virtual Machines Compute instances for your applications
Managed Disks OS and data storage for VMs
Virtual Networks Network isolation
Network Interfaces VM network connectivity
Public IP Addresses IPv4 and IPv6 external access
Network Security Groups Firewall rules
Storage Accounts Backups and object storage
Recovery Services Vaults Backup and disaster recovery
Resource Locks Prevent accidental deletion

OAuth Scope Required

Elestio uses the following OAuth 2.0 scope:

https://management.azure.com/user_impersonation

This allows Elestio to act on your behalf via Azure Resource Manager.

Step-by-Step Setup Guide

Step 1: Assign Contributor Role

  1. Sign in to the Azure Portal

  2. Go to Subscriptions

  3. Select your subscription

  4. Open Access control (IAM)

  5. Click + Add → Add role assignment

  6. Select Contributor

  7. Assign it to your user account

  8. Click Review + assign

You can assign the role in the Azure portal by following the steps outlined in the Microsoft documentation.

Verification:
Your account should appear under Role assignments with the Contributor role.

Step 2: Register Elestio Application in Azure AD

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  1. Log in to the Elestio dashboard

  2. Select Software inside Services.

  3. Go to Cloud Providers → Azure

  4. Enter your Azure Tenant ID (see how to find it in the Azure portal)

  5. Click Authenticate with Azure

You will be redirected to the Microsoft login page.

Step 3: Grant Admin Consent

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  1. Review requested permissions:

    • Access Azure Service Management as you (user_impersonation)

  2. Sign in with an admin account if required

  3. Click Accept

Note: If you lack privileges, your Azure AD administrator must grant consent.

Step 4: Select Subscription

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  1. Return to the Elestio dashboard

  2. Select the Azure subscription.

Your Azure account is now connected.

Security Best Practices

Use Dedicated Subscriptions

Resource Naming Conventions

Resource Pattern Example
Resource Group elestio-{region} elestio-eastus
VM {service-name} my-postgres-db
Public IPv4 {service-name}_ipv4 my-postgres-db_ipv4
Public IPv6 {service-name}_ipv6 my-postgres-db_ipv6
Virtual Network elestio_{region}_vnet elestio_eastus_vnet
Backup Policy elestioBackup elestioBackup

Troubleshooting

Insufficient Permissions

Cause: Missing Contributor role
Fix:

Cause: Azure AD consent missing
Fix:

Provider Not Registered

Fix:

  1. Subscriptions → Resource providers

  2. Register Microsoft.RecoveryServices

Quota Exceeded

Fix:

BYOVM with AWS EC2

You can deploy an Elestio service on your own AWS account with BYOVM


To do it, you will need to create a VM on AWS EC2, first connect to AWS EC2 dashboard: 

https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home#Instances:instanceState=running

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There click on "Launch instances" button and click on the select button on the row with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 

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Next Choose an Instance type based on your needs (T3 Medium is a good base if you don't know yet what you will need)

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Then click on NEXT (configure instance details) button

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There is nothing to do, just click on "Next: add storage" button

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In the disk size configure at least 20GB then click on the Next button again, you will arrive on the Step 5 with tags, nothing to do there, click again on Next to go to security groups configuration


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You need to create 2 rules in the security group to open the traffic from internet to the VM:

Then click on "Review and Launch" button


Alternatively you can open just a selection of ports based on your needs, at least ports TCP: 22, 80, 443 for basic usage. To allow Elestio tools (File Explorer, VS Code, web terminal) you should also open ports TCP: 18345,18374,18445. If you want to use our global private ip network you should also allow port UDP: 4242. Finally some specific ports are required based on the app template you have selected, you can find them in the activation email of the software or in our documentation here.

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Finally click on Launch, after few seconds will see a confirmation message:

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There click on View all instances button

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We recommend that you allocate & attach an Elastic IP address to your instance, so the IP address will never change in case you stop the server. Click here to allocate an Elastic IP and then attach it to your VM in EC2.

We are now back on the list of all VMs in EC2, from here right click on your new instance and click on Connect in the sub menu

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There change the user name to root then click on Connect button

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 You should then see a terminal shell like this

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There paste this command into the terminal to activate the remote management for Elestio (This is a temporary key used for the deployment phase, it's automatically removed from the VM right after the deployment)

sudo mkdir -p /root/.ssh/ && sudo echo "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAmAlfBn8fy00sHq4DV2lUDNJ73XNwCtSDgHAAEjVt8lVcPOyb+drHK7TmHtF6mIhax/qeFdS/27bqmuu2/+QyXuvG98WL47cJinVkuUNR1bqKfpjwvlGtPkVQTiz2aN9ktY8+RaKoJUg6YrL23wiRgqibRuRYJgG1tIx7O4pUAK8XPsIVw2kvTuaVWu+iQq968KozJP8t1C6U8eqwbV2H8xpMLAsuIA82S1vGkqx42TBLo8XOgQo1ZIoY4dsO+ElvJZ5sqxAg4GB57OIgpaav/2SkKau6Oh4ndkKTJms5kTc2wUm96VVea2eOrOL0TPNQOhb1uy2MgxS9LLFxm2psmQ== elestio-prod-key" >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys

Then go back to Elestio Dashboard to create a new BYOVM service

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Indicate the provider name, region name and Public IPV4 found in the AWS dashboard then click on "Test my VM"

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You'll see the pricing calculated based on the number of CPU/RAM/DISK of your AWS EC2 VM, the first BYOVM service is free!

You can then click on "Create service" and you are done! Your service will be deployed in less than 3 minutes and you will receive an email with instructions but of course the service is also accessible in the dashboard.

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From there we will take care of backups, monitoring/alerts, OS/software updates and security for you.

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BYOVM with AWS EC2 (Beta AWS UI)

This approach is outdated. Instead, you can use our Bring Your Own AWS Account(BYO-AWS) provider option.

You can deploy an Elestio service on your own AWS account with BYOVM

To do it, you will need to create a VM on AWS EC2, first connect to the AWS EC2 dashboard: 

https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home#Instances:instanceState=running

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There click on "Launch instances" button and select Ubuntu 26

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Scroll down to Instance type to select your VM size based on your needs

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then scroll down to configure network settings and storage

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In network settings you should check the 3 checkboxes to allow SSH, HTTP and HTTPS traffic from the internet.

In Storage, you can indicate any disk size above 20GB

If you need to provision multiple VMs, you can change the number of instances in the top right column

Finally click on Launch instance button

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If it's your first time deploying a VM you will be asked to create a new key pair

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give any key pair name then click on "Create key pair" and SAVE the PEM file preciously on your computer


After a few seconds you will see a confirmation message:

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There click on View all instances button

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We recommend that you allocate & attach an Elastic IP address to your instance, so the IP address will never change in case you stop the server. Click here to allocate an Elastic IP and then attach it to your VM in EC2.

We are now back on the list of all VMs in EC2, from here right click on your new instance and click on Connect in the sub menu

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There change the user name to root, then click on Connect button

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 You should then see a terminal shell like this

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There paste this command into the terminal to activate the remote management for Elestio (This is a temporary key used for the deployment phase, it's automatically removed from the VM right after the deployment)

sudo mkdir -p /root/.ssh/ && sudo echo "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAmAlfBn8fy00sHq4DV2lUDNJ73XNwCtSDgHAAEjVt8lVcPOyb+drHK7TmHtF6mIhax/qeFdS/27bqmuu2/+QyXuvG98WL47cJinVkuUNR1bqKfpjwvlGtPkVQTiz2aN9ktY8+RaKoJUg6YrL23wiRgqibRuRYJgG1tIx7O4pUAK8XPsIVw2kvTuaVWu+iQq968KozJP8t1C6U8eqwbV2H8xpMLAsuIA82S1vGkqx42TBLo8XOgQo1ZIoY4dsO+ElvJZ5sqxAg4GB57OIgpaav/2SkKau6Oh4ndkKTJms5kTc2wUm96VVea2eOrOL0TPNQOhb1uy2MgxS9LLFxm2psmQ== elestio-prod-key" >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys


We also need to allow all traffic to the VM in the AWS EC2 instance list click on your instance, then click on the security tab

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There click on the Security group in blue (launch-wizard-1 in the screenshot above)

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Click on "Edit inbound rules" to be able to allow all traffic on the VM

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Here change the rule to allow ALL TCP traffic & ALL UDP traffic from anywhere

Alternatively, you can open just a selection of ports based on your needs, at least ports TCP: 22, 80, 443 for basic usage. To allow Elestio tools (File Explorer, VS Code, web terminal) you should also open ports TCP: 18345,18374,18445.

If you want to use our global private ip network you should also allow port UDP: 4242

Finally, some specific ports are required based on the template you have selected; you can find them in the activation email of the software or in our documentation here.


Then go back to Elestio Dashboard to create a new BYOVM service

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Indicate the provider name, region name and Public IPV4 found in the AWS dashboard then click on "Test my VM."

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You'll see the pricing calculated based on the number of CPU/RAM/DISK of your AWS EC2 VM;

You can then click on "Create service," and you are done! Your service will be deployed in less than 3 minutes and you will receive an email with instructions but of course the service is also accessible in the dashboard.

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From there we will take care of backups, monitoring/alerts, OS/software updates and security for you.

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