Offers and slices
What you are actually renting when you pick a card in the marketplace, and what every field on that card means
What you share on a machine
Which parts of a host are yours alone and which are shared with another renter on the same box.
Instance lifecycle
Every state an instance can be in, what moves it between them, and which states cost you money
Stop vs destroy
The difference that decides whether you keep your data — and whether you keep paying.
Templates
The launch recipe an instance is built from, the three visibility levels, and why a template has two identities
Organizations
The boundary that owns your credits, instances and API keys, and what does and does not cross it
Credits and the ledger
How the prepaid balance works, what draws it down, and how to read the transaction record behind it
Regions
What a region tells you about a machine, when it matters, and why filtering by one narrows the fleet rather than reserving capacity