AUCKLAND, New Zealand - eTradeWire -- ASI Solutions, the privately owned New Zealand technology company trusted since 1985, today launched ASI Cloud Self-Service, a self-service portal that lets any organisation deploy a 100% NZ-hosted virtual private cloud in minutes. The platform is live now.

Until now, New Zealand teams needing cloud infrastructure have faced a trade-off: the speed of an offshore hyperscaler, with unpredictable bills and data that can route overseas — or the sovereignty and local support of a traditional NZ provider, but only after a quote, a provisioning queue, and a wait of days. ASI Cloud Self-Service removes that compromise. Users register an organisation, add a payment method, choose a VM template, set their vCPU and RAM, and deploy — start to finish in a single sitting.

Entry pricing starts at $35 NZD a month with no overages — flat, monthly and predictable. ASI says that for equivalent workloads, the platform can land at up to half the cost of running the same thing on AWS, Azure or GCP, without the egress and per-API charges that make hyperscaler bills hard to forecast. The portal shows a live cost estimate before deployment, so the figure a customer sees at deploy is the figure they pay.

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Critically, every virtual machine runs on ASI's own infrastructure across data centres in both the North and South Islands, in renewable-powered facilities, with no offshore routing. For NZ organisations carrying Privacy Act 2020 or NZISM obligations, that means a contractual, auditable footprint operated by a named New Zealand company — not a local "region" of a global provider.

"Kiwi teams have been told they can have cloud that's fast, affordable, or sovereign — pick two," said Lloyd Vickery, Country Manager, ASI New Zealand. "We built ASI Cloud Self-Service so they don't have to choose. You're a few clicks from a running VM, the price is flat and predictable, and the data never leaves New Zealand."

The portal is designed to keep customers out of support tickets for the things they should be able to do themselves: launching VMs from curated Linux templates, scaling vCPU and memory on demand, taking point-in-time snapshots and rolling back, watching built-in CPU, memory and IOPS metrics, generating Ed25519 SSH keys for secure access, and producing monthly billing breakdowns and forecasts with an Excel export.

ASI has also built the platform for an automated future. Every organisation can mint API tokens for secure programmatic access, so the same VMs a person clicks into existence can be driven by scripts and CI pipelines, with broader API-first automation for AI agents and integration partners on the roadmap.

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"As teams hand more provisioning to automation and to AI agents, the question of where that compute actually runs gets louder, not quieter," said Vickery. "Self-service NZ infrastructure means an agent spinning up a VM at 2am is still doing it inside New Zealand, under your organisation's account, on a sovereign platform. The platform a person runs by hand today is the one an agent orchestrates tomorrow — without changing where the workload lives or who holds the data."

Behind the self-service portal sits the same operation ASI has run since 2022: privately owned, NZ-based, with real engineers providing local support around the clock. Self-service, the company stresses, does not mean customers are on their own.

ASI Cloud Self-Service is aimed at Kiwi SMEs needing a couple of reliable VMs without standing up a hyperscaler account; developers and platform teams wanting disposable dev and test environments; public sector and education teams with residency and audit obligations; and teams building with AI agents who need automation-ready compute that stays in-country by default.

Availability: ASI Cloud Self-Service is available now at https://cloud.asi.nz. Organisations can register and deploy their first VM immediately, with the cost estimate shown before they commit. Teams wanting help with sizing or migration can book a meeting with a NZ-based engineer at https://asi.co.nz/book-meeting.