Autonomous system
AS54825 PACKET
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Equinix Metal (formerly Packet)
cloud hosting dedicated
The Autonomous System behind Equinix Metal, an automated bare-metal cloud that
provisions single-tenant physical servers on demand across Equinix data centers.
It began as Packet, acquired by Equinix in 2020.
What it's used for
- Renting dedicated physical servers (not shared VMs) via an API/cloud model, used for latency-sensitive, high-performance, or compliance workloads.
Notable
- An IP here identifies Equinix Metal as the host of whatever a customer runs on their bare-metal server, not the operator of that workload.
- Bare metal means one tenant per machine, unlike the multi-tenant VMs of most public clouds.
Interesting
- Equinix announced it is winding down the Metal service, steering customers to partner bare-metal offerings.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 40 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS54825- Registry name
- PACKET
- Registrant
- Packet Host, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- metal-noc@equinix.com
- Registered
- 2012-08-29
- Last changed
- 2015-06-05
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere