Alibaba Cloud AI Containers (AC2) is a collection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) container images that are provided by Alibaba Cloud. AC2 has different built-in hardware acceleration libraries, AI runtimes, and AI frameworks to meet deployment requirements in different scenarios. AC2 is deeply optimized for the Alibaba Cloud infrastructure to provide better AI performance and experience on Alibaba Cloud.
Scenarios
AC2 is suitable for the following scenarios:
All scenarios in which AI container images are involved in Alibaba Cloud, including Elastic Compute Service (ECS), Elastic Container Instance, and Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK)
Various AI workloads, including inference and training workloads
Billing
AC2 images are provided free of charge. However, you may be charged for other resources, such as vCPUs, memory, storage, public bandwidth, and snapshots, when you use the images.
Features and benefits
Out-of-the-box use: AC2 has built-in hardware drivers, AI runtimes, and AI frameworks that allow quick deployment in different scenarios.
Service support: Alibaba Cloud provides maintenance and technical support for AC2 free of charge.
Easy maintenance: You can use Yellowdog Updater Modified (
YUM) or Advanced Package Tool (APT) to maintain and manage AC2 images for different operating systems.In-depth optimization: AC2 is deeply optimized for and integrated with the Alibaba Cloud infrastructure, including ECS, ACK, and Elastic Container Instance, to continuously improve system runtime performance.
End-to-end security and stability: AC2 images are provided on an end-to-end platform where the images are built, tested, released, and maintained in a secure and stable manner.
Ecosystem support: AC2 inherits the basic system ecosystem and introduces the AI ecosystem repository (epao repository) from the OpenAnolis community. You can install AI software by performing
YUMoperations.
AC2 images
For information about AC2 images, see Alibaba Cloud AI Containers images.