TLDR; Two month rental cost of GPU machine in AWS (and elsewhere) is same as purchase price of similarly powered hardware. Why? In fiersly competitive market no

TLDR; Two month rental cost of GPU machine in AWS (and elsewhere) is same as purchase price of similarly powered hardware. Why? In fiersly competitive market no cloud provider wants to capture share here. One thing is that author is comparing high end GPU machine with V100s that cost way too much for the privilege of putting them in data center compared to consumer grade Ti1080.