Infographic 8.6.1 Architecture Grid

AI Infrastructure Architecture Layers

Cloud, edge, and centralised compute roles with representative providers and capabilities.

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Cloud

Hyperscale data centres, distributed training, elastic capacity.

AWS · Azure · GCP

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Edge

Latency-critical inference, 5G nodes, smart factories, IoT hubs.

Equinix · Akamai · Nokia

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Central HPC

National labs, frontier training clusters, exascale compute.

Frontier · EuroHPC · ISC

Caption: Layers coordinate global AI workloads from core training to edge inference