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Purely on hardware yes it’s no secret that AWS is more, quite a bit more, than just buying/building the machine and plugging it in. That’s for any servers no ju

Purely on hardware yes it’s no secret that AWS is more, quite a bit more, than just buying/building the machine and plugging it in. That’s for any servers no just “deep learning” servers. Of course you’re also paying for everything else AWS brings and the ability to spin up/down on demand with nearly unlimited scalability which is hardly “free.” AWS is also a very profitable business for Amazon so they’re making good margin too on most of their pricing.

Const-me 8y ago
> AWS is more, quite a bit more, than just buying/building the machine and plugging it in. Last time I looked, for mid-range AWS instances, purchase price was about 6-12 months of the rent. That’s assuming you buy comparable servers, i.e. Xeon, ECC RAM, etc… For GPGPU servers however, purchase price is only 1-2 months of Amazon rent. Huge difference, despite 1080Ti is very comparable to P100, 1080Ti is slightly faster (10.6 TFlops versus 9.3), P100 has slightly more VRAM (12/16GB versus 11).