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The best choice depends entirely on your specific workload and business goals.

Choose Containers for:

• Microservices Architectures: For decomposing applications into small, independent services, as each can be packaged, deployed, and scaled independently in its own container.
• Cloud-Native Development: For building modern applications designed for scalability, resilience, and continuous deployment, as containers are the ideal unit for DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• High-Density, Scalable Workloads: When needing to run many instances of an application on the same hardware to maximize resource utilization and cost-efficiency.
• Application Modernization: "Lift-and-shifting" existing applications into containers is a first step to make them more portable and manageable before a full refactor.

Nexqloud Services: Nexqloud Kubernetes Engine (NKE), Nexqloud Run (serverless containers).

Choose Virtual Machines for:

• Lift-and-Shift Migrations: For moving traditional, monolithic applications to the cloud with minimal changes, as VMs provide a familiar environment.
• Applications Requiring a Specific OS: For running workloads that need a particular version of Windows or Linux that isn't compatible with the host OS.
• Strong Security and Compliance Isolation: For workloads requiring the highest degree of isolation, such as isolating entire tenant environments or legacy applications that can't be easily containerized.
• Resource-Intensive, Monolithic Applications: For running large, stateful applications like big databases or legacy ERP systems that benefit from dedicated, predictable resources.

Nexqloud Services: Nexqloud Virtual Machines.