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What is Equinix Metal? How is Equinix Metal different from traditional cloud computing?
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Equinix Metal is a bare metal infrastructure solution that allows you to quickly deploy physical infrastructure at global scale. It provides you with direct access to high-performance, low-latency connectivity across Equinix Fabric, as well as APIs for programmatic control and automation. You can learn more here
Equinix Metal is different from traditional cloud computing because it provides you with dedicated, bare metal servers that you have full control over. This allows you to fully customize your infrastructure to meet your specific needs. It also provides you with access to low-latency, high-performance connectivity across Equinix Fabric, which enables you to easily connect to a wide range of partners, customers, and cloud providers
In addition to what @Jantzen said, there's also a new guide on how to deploy your first Equinix Metal server: https://deploy.equinix.com/developers/guides/deploy-first-server/
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