# Introduction

Lambda's public cloud lets you launch individual virtual machines or clusters and turn them down on your schedule.

On Demand Cloud

Instantly launch a Linux-based, GPU-backed virtual machine instance using a variety of NVIDIA chip configurations.

[Learn more](https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/on-demand/)

1-Click Clusters

Launch clusters of GPU instances consisting of 16 to 512 NVIDIA H100 SXM Tensor Core GPUs.

[Learn more](https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/1-click-clusters/)