Linode expands Asia-Pacific commitment by adding GPU compute instances to Singapore data center.

Linode is expanding its cloud services to the Asia-Pacific region by adding GPU instances to its Singapore data center, providing customers with a low-latency, cost-competitive option for data analytics, image processing, video transcoding, AI, and other processing-intensive applications. The Singapore data center becomes the third of Linode's global data centers to offer GPU instance types, following Newark and Mumbai. This expansion addresses the needs of Linode's growing APAC customer base, which increasingly requires advanced cloud services in proximity to end users.

Linode's GPU instances feature completely dedicated NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 Graphics Cards, which offer an efficient combination of CUDA, Tensor, and RT cores designed for virtual workstations. The company differentiates itself as "the only alternative cloud provider offering access to the Quadro RTX line of GPUs," which leverage NVIDIA's Turing GPU architecture. These instances are positioned as more cost-effective than offerings from Google Cloud and AWS, directly addressing price-sensitive customers in the region.

Dr. Brian Dennis, Director of Data Engineering at Data Machines, highlighted Linode's value proposition: "When you say machine learning today, that means GPUs. We got sticker shock from other larger providers, so I looked at Linode, with whom I'd been a personal customer for nearly a decade. Linode not only had great pricing for GPU instances but also was using the exact, hard-to-find NVIDIA cards that we were purchasing for our own data centers. Plus, Linode offers GPUs in different increments, which is hard to find with other providers." According to Cloud Spectator's "GPU Price-Performance Benchmarking" report, which evaluated Linode's offerings against Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Engine, "Linode delivers the most cost-effective GPU-based VMs on the market, especially for rendering workloads."

Linode's GPU instances are available in four tiers of card capacity, with pricing starting at $1.50 per hour or $1,000 per month for a configuration including 32GB RAM and 8 CPU cores on a Dedicated Linode. This tiered approach provides flexibility for developers and businesses scaling from development through testing environments.

Founded in 2003, Linode is headquartered in Philadelphia's Old City and operates as the largest independent open cloud provider globally, with a network of 11 data centers. The company serves more than a million developers, startups, and businesses worldwide.