Ampere’s Developer Access Programs provide a collection of free, easily accessible trial platforms for developers, customers, and Ampere partners. The programs offer compute resources using our Ampere® Altra® and Ampere® Altra® Max Cloud Native processors and provide remote access to a variety of systems managed by Ampere and our Cloud Partners.
These programs require users to adhere to Ampere’s NDA and Technology Trial policies. We encourage our developers, partners, and customers to explore Ampere products by using our access programs to begin innovating on Ampere’s leading Cloud Native platforms.
| Program | Primary Usages | Current Platform(s) | Form | ~Duration | |
| Early Access Program | Early access to platforms with forthcoming processors in a cloud configuration | Dec 2021: Altra Max Available 1. Mt. Snow 1P 2. Mt. Collins 2P | Bare Metal Instance | 2-4 Weeks | |
| Partner Cloud Program | Access to current and previous generation platforms in a cloud configuration | 1. Altra Mt. Jade 2P | Bare Metal Instance | 2-4 Weeks | |
| Specialized Platforms | Special Case Configurations hosted by Ampere | 1. Altra Mt. Snow 1P with NVIDIA T4 GPU 2. Altra Mt. Snow 1P with AMD GPU | Bare Metal Instance | 4-8 Weeks | |
| Cluster | Cluster access for scale-out use cases and application enabling | 1. Altra Mt. Snow 1P with 200GbE, 24 TB Drive Capacity | Cluster: 2-10 Nodes | 4-8 Weeks | |
| CSP Partners | Cloud Partner Access Programs | 1. OCI A1: Free Tier 2. OCI A1: Accelerator Program | VM Shapes | Free Trial: 1 month Accelerator: Variable | Try out on OCI |