Saving and restoring pre-provisioned virtual machine states

A method, comprising:

• booting a plurality of pre-provisioned virtual machines on one or more server nodes of a cloud computing system, the plurality of pre-provisioned virtual machines including pre-booted virtual machines prior to applying given sets of customer settings for associated customers of the cloud computing system;
• saving a plurality of virtual machine states for the plurality of pre-provisioned virtual machines to a storage space on the cloud computing system;
• identifying a virtual machine state from the plurality of virtual machine states based on determining that the virtual machine state is compatible with customer configuration data received via a customer request;
• and
• restoring a pre-provisioned virtual machine associated with the virtual machine state on a server node of the cloud computing system based on the customer configuration data received via the customer request.

A system, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• memory in electronic communication with the one or more processors;
• and
• instructions stored in the memory, the instructions being executable by the one or more processors to:
• boot a pre-provisioned virtual machine on a first server node of a cloud computing system, the pre-provisioned virtual machine including a pre-booted virtual machine prior to applying a given set of customer settings for an associated customer of the cloud computing system;
• save a virtual machine state representative of the pre-provisioned virtual machine to a storage space on the cloud computing system;
• determine that the virtual machine state is compatible with customer configuration data received via a customer request;
• and
• restore the pre-provisioned virtual machine on a second server node of the cloud computing system based on the customer configuration data received via the customer request.