Packet vs Northflank

Packet was a New York-based bare-metal cloud that let developers provision dedicated servers with cloud-like automation; Equinix acquired it for about $335M in 2020 and rebranded it Equinix Metal, which is itself being wound down by mid-2026.

Cloud & Edge Computing

Northflank

Self-service platform to build, deploy, and scale apps, jobs, databases, and GPU workloads, including in your own cloud.

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