SkyPilot's differentiation over traditional tools such as Terraform or the various cloud CLIs is mainly:
- Higher level of abstraction: The user simply declares that "1 A100 is required" and does not need to be concerned about specific instance types or regional API differences.
- End-to-end automation: Full process automation from code synchronization, dependency installation to task scheduling, reducing 70%+ manual operations.
- Unified view across clouds: By
sky show-gpusetc. commands to view GPU inventory and pricing for all cloud platforms at once. - Academic-friendly design: Specially optimized for research scenarios such as hyperparametric search (supporting 2000+ concurrent tasks), Jupyter Notebook integration, and other research scenario requirements.
For example, in a hybrid cloud scenario, users can first use AWS Spot instances for coarse-grained search, and then switch to the Azure NVv4 series for fine-grained tuning, and the whole process only requires modifying the YAML file'scloudFields.
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