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  • Welcome to Foundry
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  • Compute & Storage
    • Compute overview
    • Instance types & specifications
    • Reserving compute
    • Spot bids
      • Spot auction mechanics
    • Startup scripts
    • Access & manage instances
      • Statuses
    • Compute quotas
    • Managing open ports
    • Persistent storage
      • File shares
      • Block storage
    • Hosted Kubernetes clusters
    • Ephemeral storage
  • Foundry API
    • API overview and quickstart
    • API reference
      • Projects
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      • Volumes
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      • Spot
        • Bids
        • Availability
      • API Keys
      • Profile
    • Specification
  • Access Management
    • Access Management Overview
    • SSH keys
  • Account and Billing
    • Billing overview
    • Foundry Referral Program
  • Security & trust
    • Foundry's approach to security
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  1. Compute & Storage
  2. Access & manage instances

Statuses

Spot bid

Instances will not appear and are not accessible until your spot bid has been Allocated.

Status
Description

Open bid

Instances will be allocated when your bid wins. Your bid will remain open for allocation until you terminate the bid.

Allocated

Instances have been allocated for use while your bid is winning.

Preempting

Your limit price has been outbid. This spot bid will remain open but access to instances will stop in 5 minutes.

Paused

You have paused your spot bid to spin-down associated instances & preserving boot disk.

Terminated

Your bid was terminated. Instances will no longer be allocated.

Spot instance

We do not charge for the Starting time. Any accumulated charges will be deducted at the end of the billing cycle.

Status
Description

Starting

Your bid is winning. Please reach out if your wait time is longer than 20 minutes.

Running

Your bid is winning. This instance is accessible via SSH.

Relocating

This instance will be relocated to a new host in 5 minutes.

Preempting

Your limit price has been outbid. This instance will stop in 5 minutes.

Preempted

Your limit price has been outbid. This instances is no longer allocated.

Paused

Your spot bid was paused. The instance is not accessible until the bid is resumed.

Terminated

Your spot bid was terminated. This instance is no longer allocated.

Reservation

Status
Description

Confirmed

Instances will be allocated on your reservation date.

Allocated

Instances have been allocated until the end of the reservation date

Expired

Your reservation duration expired. Instances are no longer accessible.

Ended

Your reservation ended. Instances are no longer accessible.

Pending payment

Update the payment method to allow instances to be allocated.

Reserved instance

Status
Description

Scheduled

This instance will be allocated on your reservation date

Starting

Your reservation is starting. Please reach out if your wait time is longer than 20 minutes.

Running

Your reservation is running. This instance is accessible via SSH.

Terminated

Your reservation was terminated. This instance is no longer accessible.

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