Cloud Engines

A cloud engine is a dedicated compute platform on the Internet Computer, formed from a set of node machines that its owner selects and that the Internet Computer Protocol combines into a single replicated execution environment. Unlike a mainnet subnet, which serves the public network, an engine is provisioned for one owner, who chooses which node providers run it, where those nodes are located, and which class of node machine they use. Because an engine is a configuration rather than fixed hardware, nodes can be added, removed, or relocated without interrupting the canisters it hosts. Cloud engines are provisioned and managed at opencloud.org.