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Virtual Machines

Score 22.7 / 100 19 providers +13 via APIs 26 APIs Search apis.io →
Workflows using this tag
Microsoft Azure Tag an Existing Resource Group · Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure Provision a Region-Specific Deployment · Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure Audit Subscription Resources · Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure Deploy Template to a New Resource Group · Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure Resource Group Lifecycle Tag and Inventory · Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure Select Subscription and List Resource Groups · Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure Find Resources by Type and Inspect Their Group · Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure Deployment Status and Resulting Resources · Microsoft Azure
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Information Technology Management 8 Software Release & Deployment Management 1
Variants seen in the corpus: Virtual MachineVirtual Machines

Providers using this tag (19)

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
NexGen CloudCompanyCloudGPUArtificial Intelligence3 APIs66.5
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
UbicloudCompanyCloud ComputingOpen SourceInfrastructure-as-a-Service1 API61.8Amazon EC2Cloud ComputingComputeInfrastructure-as-a-ServiceInfrastructure1 API62.2Cisco IntersightInfrastructureCloud OperationsData CenterCompute11 APIs60.3CoastyCompanyComputer UseAI AgentsAutomation1 API59.6TensorDockGPUCloudMarketplaceCompute1 API54.8
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Azure Virtual MachinesCloud ComputingComputeInfrastructure-as-a-ServiceInfrastructure10 APIs49.9Google Cloud Compute EngineComputeGoogle CloudInfrastructure-as-a-ServiceInfrastructure1 API47.8Azure DevTest LabsMicrosoft AzureDevelopmentInfrastructureLabs1 API47.2KubeVirtCloud-NativeIncubatingKubernetesMigration2 APIs41.0IncusContainersVirtualizationLinux1 API40.3
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
FluenceCompanyWeb3Cloud ComputeDePIN1 API36.4Machine0CompanyCloudInfrastructure1 API32.7Unto LabsCompanyCryptocurrencyBlockchainLayer 12 APIs31.2SkytapCompanyCloudIBM PowerInfrastructure-as-a-Service1 API37.8Scale ComputingEdge ComputingHyperconverged InfrastructureVirtualizationInfrastructure Management2 APIs36.7exe.devCompanyDeveloper ToolsCloud Computing1 API33.1
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Kata ContainersContainersIsolationKubernetesOpen Source1 API22.9CartesiBlockchainLayer 2Optimistic RollupsEthereum17.5

APIs with this tag (26)

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Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Microsoft Azure virtual machine APIThe virtual machine API from Microsoft Azure — 7 operation(s) for virtual machine.76.5Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines APIThe Virtual Machines API from Microsoft Azure — 41 operation(s) for virtual machines.76.5NexGen Cloud Virtual Machine APIA virtual machine on Hyperstack is a single-tenant compute instance backed by dedicated GPU and CPU resourc...66.5
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Ubicloud Virtual Machine APIVirtual Machine Operations61.8TensorDock Instances APIThe current TensorDock Instances API (v2) at https://dashboard.tensordock.com/api/v2/instances for creating...54.8TensorDock Virtual Machines APIDeploy, list, start, stop, modify, and delete virtual machines54.8
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Azure Virtual Machines Virtual Machines APIOperations for creating, updating, deleting, and managing the lifecycle of Azure Virtual Machines including...49.9Pure Storage Virtual Machines APIThe Virtual Machines API from Pure Storage — 3 operation(s) for virtual machines.48.0Azure DevTest Labs Virtual Machines APIThe Virtual Machines API from Azure DevTest Labs — 15 operation(s) for virtual machines.47.2Hyper-V Management APIAPIs for managing Hyper-V virtualization platform including virtual machines, virtual switches, and virtual...46.6Broadcom Virtual Machines APIOperations for managing virtual machines46.0KubeVirt Virtual Machines APIOperations for managing VirtualMachine (VM) resources. A VirtualMachine defines the desired state and confi...41.0
Thin 11 Limited public surface area
Apache CloudStack Virtual Machines APIVirtual machine lifecycle management operations.38.0Skytap Cloud REST APIREST API for managing Skytap environments (configurations), VMs, networks, templates, users, projects, asse...37.8Commvault Virtual Machines APIManage virtual machine backup and recovery37.7SC//HyperCore REST APIOn-appliance REST API exposed by every SC//HyperCore (HC3) clustered node for automating virtual machines, ...36.7Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure REST APIREST API for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, providing programmatic access to backup and restore operatio...35.2Voltage Park Virtual Machines APIDeploy and manage on-demand GPU virtual machines and instant VMs.34.6Fly.io Machines APIThe Fly.io Machines API is a low-level REST interface for provisioning and managing Fly Machines, which are...34.5Inspur Cloud Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) APIREST API for Inspur Cloud's elastic compute service: create, start, stop, reboot, resize, rebuild and delet...34.1Machine0 Control PlaneThe machine0 control plane for creating, managing, snapshotting and connecting to persistent cloud VMs. Exp...32.7SimpliVity Virtual Machines APIA virtual_machine represents a single virtual machine created within an HPE SimpliVity datastore.31.2CUDO Compute Virtual Machines APIThe Virtual Machines API from CUDO Compute — 10 operation(s) for virtual machines.26.8
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
HashiCorp VagrantVagrant is the command line utility for managing the lifecycle of virtual machines for isolated, consistent...26.0Nebius Compute APIThe Nebius Compute API provisions and manages virtual machines and GPU clusters with NVIDIA GPUs and Infini...24.7Kata ContainersKata Containers is an open source container runtime that uses lightweight virtual machines to provide the s...22.9

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
49.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
46.4
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
6.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Infrastructure-as-a-Service 8 co-occurrences Virtualization 8 co-occurrences Compute 9 co-occurrences Cloud Computing 5 co-occurrences Storage 12 co-occurrences GPU 5 co-occurrences Infrastructure 18 co-occurrences

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