Deployment options

There are 4 ways to deploy Lightning AI within your Enterprise. This guide allows you to compare options and find the suitable one for you. Speak with our security specialists if helpful in deciding what is best for you.

All deployment options provide identical user experience and benefits. All options are compliant with our security practices, and only differ in the degree of control.

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Lightning Cloud (SaaS)

Lightning cloud is our Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. It is a secure, compliant and collaborative environment for developing and deploying AI applications. Lightning cloud requires zero configuration and uses compute resources in our cloud accounts. All communications between the Lightning AI control plane and your VPC are encrypted, ensuring security and confidentiality.

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)

Bring your own cloud (BYOC) offers additional security, control and observability for your Lightning AI experience. By connecting your cloud account to the Lightning AI platform, Lightning AI will use compute resources in your cloud VPC, ensuring the data never leaves the VPC. All communications between the Lightning AI control plane and the VPC are encrypted, ensuring security and confidentiality.

BYOC with VPN encryption

BYOC with VPN encryption extends the Lightning AI platform to users with the most stringent security and compliance needs. BYOC is augmented with a point to point VPN connection between the Lightning AI control plane and the cloud VPC, ensuring communications are never transmitted over the open internet at any time.

On-prem

On-prem offers Lightning AI on your private, on-prem clusters. This includes your own physical data-centers. Lightning AI can integrate nicely with a local SLURM or Kubernetes cluster.