Automate, optimize, and deliver

Run any workload, anywhere—availability guaranteed

Flexera One Virtual Machine Optimization (previously Spot Elastigroup) leverages cutting-edge automation to ensure maximum availability and resilience while reducing outages and routine manual tasks. Engineering teams spend less time on troubleshooting, leading to reliable, enterprise-grade cloud performance and increased business impact without added effort.

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Flexera One Virtual Machine Optimization: Workload-driven, enterprise-grade automation

Enterprise-grade automation

Enterprise-grade automation by default

Balance distribution and intelligent load routing across instance types and sizes powered by AI-driven automation.

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Run spot instances in production

Run spot instances in production availability guaranteed

With years of spot instance data, Virtual Machine Optimization is built to predict interruptions before they happen. Proactive detection and pre-replacing instances keep workloads highly available and fully utilized.

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Automate provisioning

Automate provisioning and pricing for maximum efficiency

AI-driven selection and predictive rebalancing across spot, on-demand and reserved capacity deliver enterprise-grade SLAs at the lowest possible cost.

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Simplified infrastructure, accelerated innovation

Managing cloud infrastructure shouldn’t slow you down. Flexera One Virtual Machine Optimization automates provisioning, optimizes resources and scales intelligently, allowing infrastructure teams to spend less time on managing servers and more time building what matters.

Stateless workloads

Run stateless services on spot capacity. Virtual Machine Optimization continuously optimizes the mix of spot and on-demand compute, keeping your jobs running—even during interruptions, with automated fallback.

Stateful workloads

Stay ahead of disruptions. Virtual Machine Optimization predicts interruptions, pre-replacing capacity and reattaches storage seamlessly to preserve node identity and instance blends without manual tuning.

CI/CD integration

Provision through pipelines, not guesswork. Virtual Machine Optimization learns from your workloads keeping applications available. No more guessing fleet sizes or scaling thresholds.

Developer workspaces

Launch right-sized VMs and GPU notebooks on spot instances with automatic fallback. Schedule start/stop times to boost performance and cut costs without repetitive setup.

Flexera One Virtual Machine Optimization turns infrastructure into an advantage—so you can innovate without limits.

Maximize savings

Save up to 90% from on-demand

Maximize savings with the optimal mix of spot, reserved and on-demand capacity. Virtual Machine Optimization delivers predictable performance and high availability without sacrificing cost efficiency.

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Automate traffic routing

Intelligent traffic routing

Distribute workloads automatically across instance types and sizes. Virtual Machine Optimization balances your cloud infrastructure to achieve peak utilization, freeing you from manual tuning of your infrastructure scale out strategy.

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AI/ML-driven high availability

High availability, built in

Increase resiliency with AI-driven autoscaling and proactive capacity replacement. Enterprise-grade SLAs, SLOs and our award-winning 24/7/365 worldwide support come standard.

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Fast smart provisioning

Application-aware automation

Provision smarter. Virtual Machine Optimization uses workload performance metrics to eliminate idle or underutilized resources, ensure cloud commitment utilization and replaces nodes seamlessly.

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Seamless integrations

Works with your tools

Keep your CI/CD pipelines, IaC frameworks and DevOps workflows intact. Virtual machine optimization integrates with leading plugins and partners. No disruption, just acceleration.

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Deploy anywhere—without limits

Run Linux and Windows workloads with zero friction. Virtual Machine Optimization abstracts OS and processor architecture complexity so your teams can move faster across heterogeneous environments.

With Flexera One Virtual Machine Optimization, we can confidently run thousands of spot instances for our core technologies without needing to touch any aspect of our deployment.

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Frequently asked questions

Flexera Virtual Machine Optimization helps organizations cut cloud compute costs by up to 90%. It achieves this by intelligently balancing committed usage, spot instances and on-demand capacity to ensure predictable performance and high availability while maximizing cost efficiency.

Yes, Flexera provides enterprise-grade durability with award-winning 24/7/365 global support and is backed by a 99.999% service availability guarantee. For more details on the SLA and SLOs for Virtual Machine Optimization, please get in touch with your account team.

Virtual Machine Optimization is cloud agnostic and works seamlessly across:

  • AWS (Amazon EC2)
  • Microsoft Azure (Azure Compute)
  • Google Cloud (Compute Engine)

It’s designed to be architecture and operating system agnostic, delivering maximum flexibility and performance across heterogeneous environments.

Absolutely. Virtual Machine Optimization integrates with popular CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools and embraces DevOps workflows without disrupting existing processes. This ensures smooth automation and optimization within your current development ecosystem.

Virtual Machine Optimization bridges both worlds. It’s designed around and aligns with the FinOps Foundation Framework for cloud cost governance while empowering DevOps and platform teams to automate resource optimization and overcome operational bottlenecks right out of the box.

Yes. Flexera Virtual Machine Optimization is available in both the AWS Marketplace and Microsoft Azure Marketplaces. In many cases, purchases via marketplace transactions can be applied toward retiring financial commitments to your cloud service provider.

*Please confirm eligibility with your Flexera Account Team, as certain restrictions may apply.

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