☁️ Elice Cloud
Elice offers two cloud services for AI and HPC workloads. They differ in isolation model, level of control, and operational overhead — pick the one that fits your workload.
Service comparison
| Item | ECI (Elice Cloud Infrastructure) | Elice AI Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Isolation unit | Virtual machine | Container |
| OS / runtime control | Full sudo access — install kernel modules, Docker, the NVIDIA container runtime, and other components freely inside the VM | Pre-configured by Elice — standard runtimes (Jupyter, VSCode, etc.) ready to use |
| Networking | Build your own virtual networks, subnets, public IPs, firewalls, and InfiniBand / RoCEv2 fabrics | Managed by the platform. You only expose external ports (HTTP / TCP) to containers |
| Storage | Block storage (with snapshots and schedulers), object storage, parallel file system (PFS) | Block storage, Data Hub (S3-compatible object storage) |
| Automation interfaces | Terraform provider (elice-dev/eci), CLI (eci), REST API | Portal UI |
| Pricing models | On-demand, reserved, spot | On-demand, reserved |
| Add-on services | Virtual clusters (HPC), monitoring & alerts, RBAC, activity logs | ML API (serve trained models as REST endpoints) |
How to choose
Pick ECI when you need to
- Control custom OS, driver versions, or kernel modules directly
- Run your own container runtime (Docker, containerd, etc.)
- Train distributed workloads across multiple nodes over InfiniBand (e.g., large-scale LLM pre-training)
- Automate with Terraform / CLI as IaC, or operate multiple environments (dev / stage / prod)
- Design network topology precisely — virtual networks, firewalls, VPNs, and so on
Pick Elice AI Cloud when you want to
- Start training or experimentation immediately in a pre-configured environment
- Use standard tools like Jupyter or VSCode without managing container builds or runtimes
- Serve a trained model quickly through ML API
- Minimize operational overhead
The two services are separate products and do not share resources. A single organization can use both side by side.
Next steps
- Get started with ECI — from sign-up to launching your first GPU VM
- Elice AI Cloud introduction — Run Box, ML API, and Data Hub