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CloudLabs at EDUCAUSE 2026 – Meet CloudLabs at EDUCAUSE 2026 · Booth #2015 · Denver, September 29–October 2 – Visit our booth
Hands-on labs drive adoption. CloudLabs helps teams ship real cloud environments in minutes, cut idle spend, and prove what learners actually did.
You build it. You run it.
Billed monthly or annually · scoped to your usage
CloudLabs gives you the full platform; your team owns lab content, hosting decisions, and day-to-day operations.
What's included
Hand it off. We run it.
Billed monthly or annually · scoped to your usage
CloudLabs runs your hands-on program end to end: content, hosting, request intake, budget governance, event delivery, trainers, and reporting, all under one SLA.
What's included
| Instance size | Cloud cost / hr |
|---|---|
| Small 2 core(s), 4 GB RAM, 128GB SSD | $0.181 |
| Medium / Standard Medium 4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM, 256GB SSD | $0.357 |
| Large / Standard Large 8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, 256GB Standard SSD | $0.682 |
| Medium - Nested virtualization 4 vCPUs, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD | $0.433 |
| Large - Nested virtualization 8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM, 256GB Premium SSD | $0.809 |
| Small GPU - Compute 6 vCPUs, 56 GB RAM, 256GB SSD | $1.151 |
| Small GPU - Visualization 8 vCPUs, 28 GB RAM, 256GB SSD | $0.865 |
| Alternative Small GPU - Visualization 6 vCPUs, 55 GB RAM, 256GB SSD | $0.761 |
| Medium GPU - Visualization 12 vCPUs, 112 GB RAM, 256GB SSD | $1.723 |
| Medium GPU - Accelerated Visualization 6 vCPUs, 55 GB RAM, 256GB SSD | $0.761 |
| Large GPU - Accelerated Visualization 12 vCPUs, 110 GB RAM, 256GB SSD | $1.491 |
*With CloudLabs, you can create custom VM SKUs with different VM size and disk configuration combinations as per your lab requirement and optimize Cloud cost for your needs. Above Example pricing uses the same lab SKUs as used by Azure Lab Services.
1,000+ labs covering Microsoft (AZ, AI, MS-series), AWS, Check Point, and general IT. Pick a lab, deploy it to your audience, done — no platform commitment, no setup.
Each lab has its own price, listed in the Store.
Store Shop labs Popular labs
1,000+ in the catalogue
AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals AZ-104 Azure Administrator AZ-305 Solutions Architect AZ-400 DevOps Engineer AI-102 Azure AI Engineer AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals AZ-104 Azure Administrator AZ-305 Solutions Architect AZ-400 DevOps Engineer AI-102 Azure AI Engineer AI-900 AI Fundamentals DP-900 Data Fundamentals SC-300 Identity & Access PL-900 Power Platform 
SAA-C03 Solutions Architect AI-900 AI Fundamentals DP-900 Data Fundamentals SC-300 Identity & Access PL-900 Power Platform SAA-C03 Solutions Architect Plus Microsoft 365 and Copilot, Power Platform, AWS, Check Point and general IT.
How it's priced
We run the whole event for you, priced to scope: hackathons, immersion workshops, technical events, and summits.
Quoted per event. Audience size, event days, content, and staffing set the price.
Formats we run
What the quote covers
Managed programs
For field GTM programs, certification academies, and event series, Managed Lab Services adds the operations layer: branded request intake, approval workflows, sponsored-budget governance, trainer staffing, and per-event proof of execution. It's the model a global cloud provider uses to run 2,500+ events a year.
Annual program fee + delivery components (per event or per seat) + cloud passthrough, or buy through Azure and AWS Marketplace and burn down your commitment.
Trusted by
“CloudLabs eliminates the time and complexity involved in setting up labs and enables a smooth experience for all participants and trainers.”
Håkan Forsberg, Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft
Canada-wide Azure Fundamentals
~6,000 Students trained
CloudLabs by Spektra Systems was instrumental in our ability to scale our hands-on training. A month before the event, Spektra procured the Cloud VM quota we needed and load-tested the environment to ensure we were fully ready to support an event at this scale.
7,000+ Trainees in a single event
A heartfelt thank you for your outstanding support in making the IBM Agentic AI Hackathon 2025 a resounding success. Your team went above and beyond to help us resolve infrastructure issues swiftly and effectively, ensuring minimal disruption throughout the event.
450+ Innovators at the IBM Agentic AI Hackathon 2025
“Our company is working with CloudLabs for three years. The service allowed us to train our teams and partners over different products and cloud platforms.”
Tal Ein-Habar Cloud Security Expert, Check Point
“The lab environments provided by Spektra Systems are critical to our NurseHack4Health events. Spektra makes it easy for our hackers and coaches to get access to Azure and Power Platform capabilities!”
Jeff Fatic Director, HLS Emerging Opportunities
FAQ
The CloudLabs Store has 1,000+ ready-to-deploy labs with prices listed per lab. Buy by lab instance, deploy to your audience, done — no platform commitment needed. Browse store.cloudlabs.ai.
Two parts, billed independently against actual usage. Platform fee: $6 per active user / month (CloudLabs-managed subscription) or $12 per active user / month (Bring Your Own Subscription). Cloud cost: pass-through at your actual Azure / AWS / GCP / Oracle compute, storage, and network rates — no markup. Only users who actually launch a lab VM count toward the platform fee.
VM Labs is the focused product for educators and trainers — virtual machines, browser delivery, LTI integration, idle detection, multi-cloud. The CloudLabs Platform adds the Validation Center, the five experiences (Hands-on Labs, Lab-Based Assessments, Courses, Events & Immersion Workshops, Hackathons), white-labelled portals, and end-to-end events. The Platform is sold as an annual contract, custom-quoted to scope.
Because it depends on what you're using it for. Audience volume, which experiences you'll run, support tier, and managed vs self-service all change the number. We quote per scope so you only pay for what you'll actually use.
Self-Service: you get the full platform (Lab Builder, catalog, events module, portals) and your team runs content and operations. Managed: our team runs the program end to end (content development, hosting, request intake and budget governance, event delivery with trainers, and per-event reporting) under a dedicated SLA. Many customers mix both: self-serve daily training, managed event programs. See how managed programs work →
Quoted to scope on an annual contract: a program fee (platform, dedicated team, and governance setup), delivery components per event or per seat, and cloud consumption passed through at your rates, or purchased through Azure and AWS Marketplace against your committed spend. Most programs start with a single funded pilot event.
Yes. Portfolios, catalogs, approval chains, and sponsored-budget streams are configured to mirror your governance. Field teams raise requests; your approvers control them; utilization and proof of execution are tracked per event for finance.
Yes — CloudLabs is on Microsoft Marketplace (Platform and VM Labs are separate listings) and on AWS Marketplace. Marketplace purchases burn down your existing Microsoft or AWS consumption commitment.
Yes — those are Professional Services, scoped per engagement. Includes lab and scenario onboarding, automation development, content authoring, custom integrations, plus trainer / proctor / SME support for live events. Quoted by the CloudLabs team based on what you need.
Per event, quoted to scope — there's no fixed per-event price. It depends on audience size, number of event days, lab and scenario content, and whether you need trainers, proctors, or SMEs on the day. Tell us the shape of your event and we'll scope it. Managed Event delivery is also available within a Platform Managed Service contract.
The full pricing guide and an Excel calculator live on help.cloudlabs.ai/docs/pricing. It covers VM SKUs, regions, support add-ons, and example scenarios.
