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The APEX Block Storage deployment contains instances that may or may not be physical machines, depending on the type of instance selected.
For the deployment, the management stack includes APEX Block Storage Manager, the proxy server, and the temporary management platform installer.
APEX Block Storage does not include SDCs (the consumers of storage). The customer is responsible for deploying the compute instances on AWS instances of their choice.