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Virtual Machines

Score 22.0 / 100 23 providers +13 via APIs 26 APIs Search apis.io →
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Information Technology Management 9 Software Release & Deployment Management 1
Variants seen in the corpus: Virtual MachineVirtual Machines

Providers using this tag (23)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
NexGen CloudCompanyCloudGPUArtificial Intelligence3 APIs69.8Amazon EC2Amazon Web ServicesCloud ComputingComputeInfrastructure-as-a-Service124 APIs71.0
Strong 7 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Azure Virtual MachinesCloud ComputingComputeInfrastructure-as-a-ServiceInfrastructure6 APIs64.2Google Cloud Compute EngineComputeGoogle CloudInfrastructure-as-a-ServiceInfrastructure111 APIs62.7UbicloudCompanyCloud ComputingOpen SourceInfrastructure-as-a-Service1 API61.1Azure DevTest LabsMicrosoft AzureDevelopmentInfrastructureLabs2 APIs55.6LinodeCloud ComputingInfrastructure-as-a-ServiceKubernetes3 APIs65.8CoastyCompanyComputer UseAI AgentsAutomation1 API62.8Cisco IntersightInfrastructureCloud OperationsData CenterCompute11 APIs60.1
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Danube DataCloudManaged DatabaseObject Storage1 API51.4FluenceCompanyWeb3Cloud ComputeDePIN1 API45.5KubeVirtCloud-NativeIncubatingKubernetesMigration2 APIs41.0IncusContainersVirtualizationLinux1 API39.6TensorDockGPUCloudMarketplaceCompute1 API53.6Scale ComputingEdge ComputingHyperconverged InfrastructureVirtualizationInfrastructure Management2 APIs39.3
Thin 5 Limited public surface area
Machine0CompanyCloudInfrastructure1 API33.6Unto LabsCompanyCryptocurrencyBlockchainLayer 12 APIs30.8CUDO ComputeGPUCloud ComputeInfrastructure1 API29.1SkytapCompanyCloudIBM PowerInfrastructure-as-a-Service1 API36.5exe.devCompanyDeveloper ToolsCloud Computing1 API34.9
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
Kata ContainersContainersIsolationKubernetesOpen Source1 API23.7UnraidOperating SystemNetwork Attached StorageDocker21.2CartesiBlockchainLayer 2Optimistic RollupsEthereum16.4

APIs with this tag (26)

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Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Microsoft Azure virtual machine APIThe virtual machine API from Microsoft Azure — 7 operation(s) for virtual machine.75.7Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines APIThe Virtual Machines API from Microsoft Azure — 41 operation(s) for virtual machines.75.7NexGen Cloud Virtual Machine APIA virtual machine on Hyperstack is a single-tenant compute instance backed by dedicated GPU and CPU resourc...69.8Hyper-V Management APIAPIs for managing Hyper-V virtualization platform including virtual machines, virtual switches, and virtual...66.9
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Azure Virtual Machines Virtual Machines APIThe Virtual Machines API from Azure Virtual Machines — 24 operation(s) for virtual machines.64.2Ubicloud Virtual Machine APIVirtual Machine Operations61.1Azure DevTest Labs Virtual Machines APIThe Virtual Machines API from Azure DevTest Labs — 15 operation(s) for virtual machines.55.6
Developing 7 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Broadcom Virtual Machines APIOperations for managing virtual machines53.8TensorDock Instances APIThe current TensorDock Instances API (v2) at https://dashboard.tensordock.com/api/v2/instances for creating...53.6TensorDock Virtual Machines APIDeploy, list, start, stop, modify, and delete virtual machines53.6Pure Storage Virtual Machines APIThe Virtual Machines API from Pure Storage — 3 operation(s) for virtual machines.47.7Fly.io Machines APIThe Fly.io Machines API is a low-level REST interface for provisioning and managing Fly Machines, which are...41.5KubeVirt Virtual Machines APIOperations for managing VirtualMachine (VM) resources. A VirtualMachine defines the desired state and confi...41.0SC//HyperCore REST APIOn-appliance REST API exposed by every SC//HyperCore (HC3) clustered node for automating virtual machines, ...39.3
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
Apache CloudStack Virtual Machines APIVirtual machine lifecycle management operations.38.4Commvault Virtual Machines APIManage virtual machine backup and recovery37.9Skytap Cloud REST APIREST API for managing Skytap environments (configurations), VMs, networks, templates, users, projects, asse...36.5Inspur Cloud Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) APIREST API for Inspur Cloud's elastic compute service: create, start, stop, reboot, resize, rebuild and delet...34.9Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure REST APIREST API for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, providing programmatic access to backup and restore operatio...34.5Voltage Park Virtual Machines APIDeploy and manage on-demand GPU virtual machines and instant VMs.34.2Machine0 Control PlaneThe machine0 control plane for creating, managing, snapshotting and connecting to persistent cloud VMs. Exp...33.6SimpliVity Virtual Machines APIA virtual_machine represents a single virtual machine created within an HPE SimpliVity datastore.31.8HashiCorp VagrantVagrant is the command line utility for managing the lifecycle of virtual machines for isolated, consistent...29.4CUDO Compute Virtual Machines APIThe Virtual Machines API from CUDO Compute — 10 operation(s) for virtual machines.29.1
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Kata ContainersKata Containers is an open source container runtime that uses lightweight virtual machines to provide the s...23.7Nebius Compute APIThe Nebius Compute API provisions and manages virtual machines and GPU clusters with NVIDIA GPUs and Infini...23.2

Companies reaching this through an API (13)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Virtual Machines” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Apache CloudStack Broadcom Commvault Fly Io HashiCorp Inspur Cloud Microsoft Azure Microsoft Windows Server Nebius Pure Storage SimpliVity Veeam Voltage Park

Score breakdown

Frequency
46.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
46.5
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
6.3
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Infrastructure-as-a-Service 9 co-occurrences Virtualization 8 co-occurrences Volumes 6 co-occurrences Cloud Computing 6 co-occurrences Object Storage 6 co-occurrences Compute 9 co-occurrences Regions 5 co-occurrences

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