Vultr

Vultr is a cloud platform brand whose official site presents SSD VPS servers, cloud servers, and cloud hosting, alongside GPU-accelerated offerings such as AMD Instinct and NVIDIA HGX systems for AI training, inference, and HPC workloads. The company was founded in 2014 by David Aninowsky, who serves as Founder and Executive Chairman, with J.J. Kardwell as Chief Executive Officer. Its published timeline records data center openings across multiple regions and milestones including the launch of the Vultr Cloud Alliance in June 2023, the Vultr Kubernetes Engine in December 2020, and the Vultr Marketplace in August 2020.

Vultr was founded in 2014 by David Aninowsky, who serves as Founder and Executive Chairman and had worked in the managed infrastructure business since 1996. The company's published timeline records a series of data center openings and product milestones: the Vultr Marketplace was introduced in August 2020, the Vultr Kubernetes Engine in December 2020, and the Vultr Cloud Alliance was launched in June 2023. Data center openings listed include South Korea (May 2020), Mexico and Sweden (September 2021), São Paulo (December 2021), Madrid and Warsaw (January 2022), Melbourne (February 2022), Honolulu (March 2022), Mumbai (April 2022), Bangalore (August 2022), Delhi NCR (September 2022), Johannesburg (December 2022), Osaka and Santiago (January 2023), Manchester (May 2023), Tel Aviv-Yafo (April 2023), Sabey Data Center (March 2024), an expanded Chicago data center region (December 2024), and a Milan data center (March 2026). The timeline also records securing $329 million in credit financing (June 2025), a new partnership with Verizon (January 2025), and a $3.5 billion valuation in financing from LuminArx and AMD Ventures (December 2024).

• 2026

  Milan Data Center opened (March 2026)

• 2025

  Established a new partnership with Verizon (January 2025)

• 2025

  Secured $329 million in credit financing (June 2025)

• 2024

  Secured $3.5 billion valuation in financing from LuminArx and AMD Ventures (December 2024)

• 2023

  Vultr Cloud Alliance launched (June 2023)

• 2020

  Vultr Marketplace introduced (August 2020)

• 2020

  Vultr Kubernetes Engine introduced (December 2020)

• 2014

  Vultr founded by David Aninowsky

Independent cloud platform; described in its own materials as a cloud disruptor and a leader in the independent Cloud platform market.

• SSD VPS Servers

  Virtual private servers with SSD storage

• Cloud Servers

  Cloud server offerings

• Cloud Hosting

  Cloud hosting services

• AMD Instinct MI455X

  High-memory AI infrastructure for training, large-scale inference, and agentic AI

• AMD Instinct MI355X

  Acceleration with breakthrough memory capacity and memory bandwidth; pricing starts at $2.290/GPU/hr

• AMD Instinct MI325X

  HPC, AI training, and inference-optimized acceleration; pricing starts at $2.000/GPU/hr

• AMD Instinct MI300X

  AI and HPC deployments; pricing starts at $1.850/GPU/hr

• NVIDIA GB300 NVL72

  NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs and NVIDIA Grace CPUs in a liquid-cooled, rack-scale architecture

• NVIDIA HGX B300

  NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs for AI reasoning

• NVIDIA HGX B200

  NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with high-speed interconnect; pricing starts at $3.500/GPU/hr

• NVIDIA GH200

  Acceleration of large-scale AI, model training and inference, and HPC; pricing starts at $2.990/GPU/hr

• NVIDIA HGX H100

  Acceleration for AI, data analytics, and HPC workloads; pricing starts at $2.300/GPU/hr

• NVIDIA HGX A100 and A100 PCIe

  Simulation, data analytics, and AI; pricing starts at $1.290/GPU/hr

• NVIDIA L40S

  AI compute combined with graphics

• Vultr Kubernetes Engine

  Kubernetes engine; beta available in LA and NJ (August 2021)

• Vultr Marketplace

  One-click setup marketplace introduced August 2020

• Unconfirmed

  Backblaze and Vultr announce cloud computing service partnership[5]Backblaze 与 Vultr 宣布合作推出云计算服务chinaz.com

  Backblaze announced a collaboration with Vultr to offer a cloud computing service aimed at developers; the source does not provide a calendar date for the announcement.

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1. 1SSD VPS Servers, Cloud Servers and Cloud Hosting - Vultr.comvultr.com
2. 2About Vultr, A Global Cloud Service for You - Vultr.comvultr.com
3. 3Our Team - Vultr.comvultr.com
4. 4Latest News and Updates | Vultr - Vultr.comvultr.com
5. 5Backblaze 与 Vultr 宣布合作推出云计算服务chinaz.com