Nebius Introduces AI Cloud 3.0 “Aether”: Empowering Enterprise-Grade AI Deployment with Security, Control, and Scalability
Nebius has announced the release of Nebius AI Cloud 3.0 “Aether”, a transformative update to its AI cloud platform designed to empower organizations with the tools they need to deploy and scale artificial intelligence (AI) workloads in production environments. The Aether release focuses on delivering enterprise-grade security, compliance, and control while simplifying developer workflows and ensuring unmatched performance and reliability. These advancements address the growing complexities of deploying AI at scale, particularly in highly regulated industries like healthcare, financial services, and government.
Bridging the Gap Between Experimentation and Production AI
As AI evolves from experimentation to mission-critical applications, enterprises face significant challenges in transitioning workloads into production. Traditional cloud infrastructure often falls short due to fragmented tooling, inconsistent performance across regions, and complex procurement processes that delay deployment. Additionally, general-purpose security models fail to meet the stringent compliance requirements of AI-specific use cases, creating bottlenecks in managing data pipelines, access controls, and GPU resources.
With the Aether release, Nebius AI Cloud tackles these pain points head-on by introducing independently validated security certifications, granular governance features, and streamlined developer experiences. This combination ensures that organizations can confidently move AI workloads into production, even in heavily regulated industries.
Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance
Security and compliance are foundational pillars of the Aether release. Nebius AI Cloud is now certified under SOC 2 Type II, including the HIPAA section, and ISO 27001, providing independent validation of its robust security framework. These certifications enable organizations in healthcare, financial services, and government to deploy AI workloads while adhering to strict regulatory requirements.
Additionally, the platform aligns with key regulatory frameworks such as NIS2, DORA, ISO 27032, ISO 27701, and ISO 27799, ensuring global compliance and local data residency options. An embedded secrets manager further enhances security by enabling secure API key and credential management, reducing the risk of breaches.
Enhanced Governance and Control
The Aether release introduces advanced governance capabilities, giving organizations fine-grained control over their AI workloads. Enhanced Identity and Access Management (IAM) features provide more granular permissions, ensuring that only authorized users can access sensitive data and resources.
A comprehensive observability suite offers searchable logs, histograms, metrics ingestion, and auditing tools, empowering IT teams with full visibility into system health and performance. These features not only simplify compliance reporting but also enable proactive issue detection and resolution, reducing downtime and operational complexity.
Streamlined Developer Workflows for Faster Deployment
Developer productivity is another core focus of the Aether release. Nebius has redesigned its user interface (UI) and navigation to better align with AI/ML developer workflows, making it easier for teams to build, test, and deploy AI applications. Preloaded app catalogs support rapid VM creation, allowing developers to spin up environments tailored for specific AI workloads in minutes.
Simplified quota allocation and billing for GPUs, CPUs, and memory further accelerate time-to-production, while expanded ecosystem integrations with platforms like SkyPilot Server, Anyscale, Outerbounds, Saturn Cloud, and Lightning AI provide end-to-end solutions from procurement to deployment. These enhancements ensure that developers can focus on innovation rather than grappling with infrastructure complexities.
Unmatched Performance and Reliability
Performance and reliability remain central to the Nebius AI Cloud experience. The Aether release builds on Nebius’ reputation for delivering supercomputer-level performance, as demonstrated by its leading results in the MLPerf® Inference v5.1 benchmarks using NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 and NVIDIA HGX™ B200 systems. Nebius is also one of the first NVIDIA Exemplar Clouds, achieving NVIDIA’s performance standards for large-scale training workloads on NVIDIA HGX H200 systems.
To further enhance reliability, the Aether release includes automated active and passive health checks with self-healing infrastructure capabilities. Proactive system health monitoring detects and resolves issues before they impact performance, ensuring enterprise-scale stability. Significant upgrades to object and file storage systems—both third-party and native—deliver substantial performance gains, enabling faster data processing and improved efficiency.
A Unified Platform for Global AI Deployment
Nebius AI Cloud’s infrastructure spans the US, Europe, the UK, and the Middle East, offering global compliance and local data residency options that meet regional requirements. Early access to the latest GPU architectures allows enterprises to deploy AI workloads locally while enjoying a unified platform experience. Partnerships with technology distributors like TD SYNNEX, which launched its AI Infrastructure as a Service offering on Nebius AI Cloud, further expand the platform’s reach and capabilities.
Leadership Perspective: Balancing Control and Productivity
“Nebius AI Cloud delivers what enterprises need: supercomputer performance, hyperscaler ease-of-use, and the trust and governance required for production AI,” said Roman Chernin, co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Nebius. “Aether proves that enterprise control and builder productivity can coexist on the same platform. With comprehensive security and governance features, and a constant focus on the developer experience, we’re delivering the infrastructure enterprises need to move from AI experimentation to business-critical production.”
Join the Live Walkthrough
Nebius invites organizations to explore the capabilities of Nebius AI Cloud 3.0 “Aether” during a live walkthrough and Q&A session on Wednesday, November 5, at 6 p.m. CET / midday EST / 9 a.m. PST. Attendees will gain insights into the platform’s latest features and learn how Nebius is redefining AI deployment for the enterprise. Register here for more information.
Nebius AI Cloud 3.0 “Aether” – Key Highlights
Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance
- SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications
- Alignment with NIS2, DORA, ISO 27032, ISO 27701, and ISO 27799 frameworks
- Embedded secrets manager for secure API key and credential management
Governance & Control
- Enhanced IAM with granular controls
- Comprehensive observability suite with searchable logs, histograms, and auditing
Developer Productivity
- Updated UI and navigation optimized for AI/ML workflows
- Preloaded app catalogs for rapid VM creation
- Simplified GPU, CPU, and memory quota allocation and billing
- Expanded ecosystem support, including SkyPilot Server and Anyscale integrations
Reliability & Performance
- Automated health checks with self-healing infrastructure
- Object and file storage performance enhancements
- NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud certification on NVIDIA HGX B200
- Leading results in MLPerf® Inference v5.1 benchmarks
About Nebius
Nebius is a technology company building full-stack cloud infrastructure for the global AI industry. Headquartered in Amsterdam and listed on Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NBIS), the company has a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, North America, and Israel.
Nebius AI Cloud has been built from the ground up for intensive AI workloads. With proprietary software and hardware designed in-house, Nebius AI Cloud gives AI builders the compute, storage, managed services, and tools they need to build, tune, and run their models.
