Before EIS: CPU nodes, self-managed, one per model.
After EIS: 1 GPU-accelerated fleet, managed by Elastic.
Vector search and semantic reranking each ran on CPU nodes you provisioned yourself.
More models meant more infrastructure to operate.
The Elastic Inference Service (EIS)… pic.twitter.com/IJZhsFFKvU, Elastic
https://x.com/elastic/status/2086845032028360784?s=12
Why I saved this: elastic search inference