CloudNexus | Infrastructure Specifications

Infrastructure Specifications

Technical details for CloudNexus hardware, network topology, storage tiers, and security architecture.

Version 2024.11.2 Last Updated: Nov 14, 2024 Status: Production Ready

🏗️ Infrastructure Overview

CloudNexus operates a Tier-IV facility standard with redundant power, cooling, and network paths. Our hardware stack utilizes the latest generation processors and NVMe storage arrays to deliver low-latency performance for modern workloads.

Processor Generation

3rd Gen
AMD EPYC 9004 & Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids

Network Uplink

400 Gbps
Aggregated backbone capacity per rack

Storage IOPS

250k+
Per NVMe volume with sub-millisecond latency

Hypervisor

KVM
Hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x / AMD-V)

🖥️ Compute Instance Families

Choose the optimal instance type for your workload. All instances include live migration, snapshot capabilities, and metadata service access.

CN-M5: Memory Optimized

Designed for memory-intensive applications such as in-memory databases, real-time big data analytics, and high-performance web servers.

Instance Type vCPUs Memory (GB) Base Clock Burst Clock Status
cn.m5.large 2 8 2.1 GHz 3.9 GHz Available
cn.m5.xlarge 4 16 2.1 GHz 3.9 GHz Available
cn.m5.4xlarge 16 64 2.1 GHz 3.9 GHz Available
cn.m5.8xlarge 32 128 2.1 GHz 3.9 GHz Available

CN-C6i: Compute Optimized

Best suited for compute-bound applications requiring high performance processors, including batch processing, media transcoding, and high-performance web servers.

Instance Type vCPUs Memory (GB) Base Clock Burst Clock Status
cn.c6i.xlarge 4 8 3.0 GHz 3.7 GHz Available
cn.c6i.2xlarge 8 16 3.0 GHz 3.7 GHz Available
cn.c6i.8xlarge 32 64 3.0 GHz 3.7 GHz Available

CN-G5: GPU Accelerated

Powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs for machine learning training, inference, and high-performance computing.

  • GPU Model NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe
  • GPU Memory 80 GB HBM2e
  • NVLink Bandwidth 600 GB/s
  • Tensor Cores 4th Gen

💾 Storage Specifications

Block Storage (EBS)

High-performance block storage volumes attached to instances. Supports encryption at rest and in transit.

Volume Type Max IOPS Throughput Latency Use Case
io2 Block Express 256,000 4,750 MB/s < 0.2 ms Critical Databases
gp3 General Purpose 16,000 1,000 MB/s 1-2 ms Boot Volumes
sc1 Throughput 500 500 MB/s 5-10 ms Big Data / Hadoop

Object Storage (S3-Compatible)

Durability

99.999999999%
11 Nines via erasure coding across 3 AZs

Availability

99.99%
Standard Class SLA

Max Object Size

5 TB
Multipart upload recommended >100MB

🌐 Network Specifications

CloudNexus provides a low-latency, high-throughput software-defined network with global anycast routing for optimized traffic delivery.

  • VPC Limits 5 VPCs per Region
  • Subnets per VPC 200
  • Security Groups 500 per VPC
  • Load Balancer L7/L4 Application & Network LB
  • NAT Gateways 10 Gbps base, burstable to 45 Gbps
  • Direct Connect 1 Gbps / 10 Gbps / 100 Gbps
JSON / API Response
{
  "network_topology": {
    "uplink_speed": "400 Gbps",
    "routing_protocol": "BGP",
    "packet_loss": "< 0.001%",
    "inter_region_latency": "15 ms avg",
    "dns_resolution": 2 "ms"
  }
}

🔒 Security & Compliance

CloudNexus infrastructure is certified to meet industry-leading security standards. We provide comprehensive tools for identity management, encryption, and threat detection.

SOC 2 Type II

Audit available upon request. Covers security, availability, and confidentiality.

ISO 27001

Certified Information Security Management System (ISMS).

GDPR

Data processing agreements and regional data residency options.

HIPAA

BAA available for eligible healthcare workloads.

Encryption Standards

  • At Rest AES-256-GCM
  • In Transit TLS 1.3 (SHA-256)
  • Key Management CloudKMS / BYOK / HSM-backed

📄 Service Level Agreement (SLA)

CloudNexus guarantees high availability across all services. Credits are issued automatically based on downtime duration.

Service Availability Target Credit Policy
Compute Instances 99.95% 10% - 25% monthly credit
VPC & Networking 99.99% 25% - 50% monthly credit
Object Storage 99.99% 10% - 50% monthly credit
Managed Databases 99.95% 10% - 25% monthly credit