Understanding Compute Sources

Skip this section if your administrator shares Grids with your account.

Shared Compute: Kinesis-managed, multi-tenant, pay-per-use The primary benefit is that applications enjoy full access to the machine's capabilities, while costs are incurred only for actual usage, measured by:

• CPU milliseconds consumed

• GPU milliseconds consumed

• RAM and VRAM bytes used

When an application is idle and not utilizing CPU or GPU resources, no corresponding charges apply. This mode is well-suited for rapid prototyping and non-critical workloads where consistent performance is not essential.

Grids: Compute you control—either provisioned by Kinesis or connected from your own infrastructure. Can be shared across apps or accounts.

Grids consist of dedicated resources managed by you or your company’s system administrators. These resources are shared only within the same organization. They are billed based on the time they are reserved. Charges occur as follows:

• Full price when active: Servers are considered active when they have one or more apps that are not in the “Stopped” state (e.g. they are “Running” or “Starting”)

• Storage-only price when hibernated: If a server has no apps on it, or if all apps are in the stopped state, Kinesis hibernates it to save on costs. In this case, charges apply only to storage.

💡An app can access multiple pools, expanding its resource options.

Use your organization’s existing grids when available. Confirm the appropriate pool with your system administrator. Please see next section on how to use Grids assigned to you.