Run AI workloads on any cloud, store on Hugging Face: zero-egress storage with SkyPilot

Hugging Face Blog · 1 week ago

SkyPilot and Hugging Face integrated support for mounting models and datasets from Hugging Face directly into compute jobs running on any cloud or on-premises cluster. In a benchmark fine-tuning Qwen 3.5-4B, the model loaded in ~30 seconds at up to 500 MB/s and checkpoints wrote back to storage at 112–168 MB/s depending on the cloud, with zero data egress charges. Teams can now run GPU workloads on whichever cloud has available capacity while reading from a single bucket, eliminating the need to replicate data across vendors or pay per-cloud transfer costs.