Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%

Moving Hopsworks Serverless and its 8,000 Users to OVH Hopsworks Hopsworks is an open platform for developing and operating AI systems at scale that can be deployed on any Kubernetes clusters from public clouds to sovereign air-gapped data centers. Hopsworks can be considered an alternative to MLOps platforms such as AWS Sagemaker, GCP Vertex, and Databricks (for AI), but it has higher performance real-time AI, better Python integration to the Lakehouse, as shown in our peer-reviewed SIGMOD’24 research paper, and is the OG feature store for ML. Hopsworks provides both data and compute support, see Figure 1. There is a Lakehouse layer (Delta Lake, Apache Hudi, Iceberg coming soon) to store large amounts of historical feature data for training AI models and for batch inference. There is also a low latency database, RonDB, that we develop for real-time AI workloads (including specialized query support for low-latency query support and snowflake schema data models). Hopsworks also suppo ... Read full article.