Best for | Teams that want Factory-managed operations and analytics. | Teams with specific regulatory or policy requirements that rule out Factory Managed. |
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Data boundary | Customer content is tenant-isolated within Factory’s managed environment. | Code execution stays in your VPC. Model inference and session storage follow your model and data settings. |
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Security and access | Enterprise Controls govern models, access, telemetry, and autonomy. | Enterprise Controls govern models, access, telemetry, and autonomy. Your IAM, network, and security controls govern the sandbox infrastructure. |
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Control plane | Factory-hosted. | Factory-hosted by default, with support for customer-hosted if needed. |
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Droid execution | Local machines, CI/CD, computers connected through Remote Control, or Droid Computers. | Sandboxes in your VPC through OpenCompute, plus local machines and CI/CD. |
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Operations and updates | Factory operates the control plane. Your team operates local and CI environments. | Your team runs the OpenCompute orchestrator and sandbox capacity. Factory runs the rest. |
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Telemetry and analytics | Factory Analytics or OpenTelemetry export. | Factory telemetry and OpenTelemetry export to your collector. |
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