Carolina Cloud provides dedicated AMD EPYC cloud instances optimized for bioinformatics and finance workloads, offering up to three times lower pricing than major providers and zero egress fees. The platform simplifies deployment with a clean console, a single‑key REST API, and a one‑line CLI, enabling tasks like whole‑genome variant calling to complete in 38 minutes for $1.65. It targets researchers and data teams needing predictable, high‑performance compute without complex IAM or hidden costs.
Funding
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Problem
Bioinformatics and finance teams often face high cloud compute costs, complex identity‑and‑access management, and unpredictable data egress fees, which limit the speed and affordability of large‑scale analyses such as whole‑genome variant calling.
Solution
Carolina Cloud provides dedicated AMD EPYC compute instances that deliver the performance needed for genomics and quantitative finance workloads at roughly one‑third the price of major public clouds. The service eliminates shared‑core pricing, offers flat‑rate vCPU pricing, and includes hot NVMe storage and S3‑compatible object buckets with zero data egress charges. Users can provision resources through a clean web console, a single‑line CLI command, or a REST API using one API key, avoiding the multi‑step IAM setups typical of larger providers. Instances run Ubuntu Linux with root access, static IPs, and are hosted in a Tier 3 datacenter on American soil, ensuring low latency and data residency. This combination of cost transparency, operational simplicity, and high‑performance hardware enables researchers to complete whole‑genome variant calling in under 40 minutes for $1.65 per run.
Target Audience
Primary customers are genomics research groups, bioinformatics pipelines, and quantitative finance teams that require high‑performance, cost‑effective compute for large data workloads.
Features
- Dedicated AMD EPYC CPUs with 2 GB RAM per vCPU, priced at $0.005 per vCPU‑hour
- Hot NVMe SSD storage at $0.0001 per GiB‑hour and S3‑compatible object storage at $0.009 per GiB‑month
- Zero data egress fees for all outbound traffic
- Simple provisioning via web console, one‑line CLI (`ccloud create vm`), or REST API with a single API key
- Root admin access, static IP addresses, and Ubuntu Linux environment on a Tier 3 datacenter
- Integrated hot SSD storage and optional cold storage at $1.55 per TB‑month