Primitives

Anycloud has three compute primitives—Jobs, Services, and VMs—and one storage primitive, Buckets. Choose the compute primitive that matches your workload's lifecycle, then add a Bucket when its data must persist independently of that compute.

Primitive	Choose it when	Lifetime	Primary access
Job	Work should run to completion	Compute is released after exit	Logs and exec
Service	An HTTP workload should stay online	Until upgrade or termination	Stable Anycloud URL
VM	You need direct, interactive control	Until termination	SSH to the container or host
Bucket	Data must outlive its compute	Until the bucket is deleted	Mounted files in supported workloads

Jobs are the default for finite work such as training, evaluation, and batch inference. Services manage long-running HTTP workloads and give them a stable public URL. VMs provide an interactive shell and direct host control without a managed HTTP endpoint. Buckets complement supported Jobs and Services with durable object storage; they are not a compute environment.

Jobs and Services run on dedicated VMs by default, or on shared cluster capacity—the primitive you choose is the same either way.