Developer Access Programs

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	currentPlatform	Form	~Duration
Early Access Program	Early access to platforms with forthcoming processors in a cloud configuration	Dec 2021: Altra Max Available Mt. Snow 1P Mt. Collins 2P	Bare Metal Instance	2-4 Weeks
Partner Cloud Program	Access to current and previous generation platforms in a cloud configuration	Altra Mt. Jade 2P	Bare Metal Instance	2-4 Weeks
Specialized Platforms	Special Case Configurations hosted by Ampere	Altra Mt. Snow 1P with NVIDIA T4 GPU Altra Mt. Snow 1P with AMD GPU	Bare Metal Instance	4-8 Weeks
Cluster	Cluster access for scale-out use cases and application enabling	Altra Mt. Snow 1P with 200GbE, 24 TB Drive Capacity	Cluster: 2-10 Nodes	4-8 Weeks
CSP Partners	Trial access to Ampere Cloud VM shapes in China	Tencent CVM SR1	VM Shapes	2-6 Weeks
CSP Partners	Cloud Partner Access Programs	OCI A1: Free Tier OCI A1: Accelerator Program	VM Shapes	Free Trial: 1 month Accelerator: Variable	Try out on OCI

Program:	Early Access Program
Primary Usages:	Early access to platforms with forthcoming processors in a cloud configuration
currentPlatform:	Dec 2021: Altra Max Available Mt. Snow 1P Mt. Collins 2P
Form:	Bare Metal Instance
~Duration	2-4 Weeks

Program:	Partner Cloud Program
Primary Usages:	Access to current and previous generation platforms in a cloud configuration
currentPlatform:	Altra Mt. Jade 2P
Form:	Bare Metal Instance
~Duration	2-4 Weeks

Program:	Specialized Platforms
Primary Usages:	Special Case Configurations hosted by Ampere
currentPlatform:	Altra Mt. Snow 1P with NVIDIA T4 GPU Altra Mt. Snow 1P with AMD GPU
Form:	Bare Metal Instance
~Duration	4-8 Weeks

Program:	Cluster
Primary Usages:	Cluster access for scale-out use cases and application enabling
currentPlatform:	Altra Mt. Snow 1P with 200GbE, 24 TB Drive Capacity
Form:	Cluster: 2-10 Nodes
~Duration	4-8 Weeks

Program:	CSP Partners
Primary Usages:	Trial access to Ampere Cloud VM shapes in China
currentPlatform:	Tencent CVM SR1
Form:	VM Shapes
~Duration	2-6 Weeks

Program:	CSP Partners
Primary Usages:	Cloud Partner Access Programs
currentPlatform:	OCI A1: Free Tier OCI A1: Accelerator Program
Form:	VM Shapes
~Duration	Free Trial: 1 month Accelerator: Variable
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