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Machines

The Machines page helps you view and manage machines in the console.

What are Machines?

Machines are virtual servers hosted for you by cloud providers. Each machine is a compute instance you can use to run applications, host services, or manage workloads. The console gives you a single place to see and manage these instances across different clouds and accounts.

Machines are backed by provider-specific products. Depending on which cloud provider hosts one, a “machine” may correspond to:

These virtual servers are represented as provider-agnostic Machine resources, so you can work with them in the same way regardless of provider.

View Machine instances

The Machines table lists all machine instances from your registered cloud accounts, with their attributes displayed in table columns. Use pagination controls at the bottom of the page to navigate between pages if there are too many machines to display.

When table data is being updated, table rows are displayed in italic, and table controls become inactive. It may take time to load the next portion of data.

To refresh the table, use the Reload 🔄 button.

To customize attributes displayed in the table, use the Layout ⠇ button.

When there are too many machines available, use the Add filters 🔎 button to fine-tune your search. See the Resource Filter documentation for details.

Attributes

The following Machine attributes are available:

  • ID — Provider-specific identifier
  • Provider — Cloud provider (e.g. Akamai)
  • Region — Region or data center where the machine runs
  • Account — Account that owns the machine
  • Machine type — Instance type/size (e.g. CPU and memory tier); provider-specific
  • Name — Display name of the machine
  • Status — Current state (e.g. running, stopped)
  • Tags — Labels attached to the machine
  • IPv4 / IPv6 — Network addresses

Which columns appear by default can vary; use the Layout button in the toolbar to show or hide columns.

Creating a new machine

To create a new machine instance, click Create in the toolbar. This action is disabled when the machine is associated with an account that does not have Admin access.

Deleting a machine

To delete a Machine, i.e. terminate the server instance, check the machine’s selection box and click the Delete 🗑️ button. This action is disabled when the machine is associated with an account that does not have Admin access.

The delete action may take time. Its status and progress are available on the Actions page.