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Not sure what you mean. You can buy GPUs anywhere. You can even buy Tesla V100s that power AWS accelerated instances.

• chrisseaton 6y ago
  > Not sure what you mean. Over the last decade there was often a major problem in GPU supply. Huge users like Amazon were presumably buying in bulk direct from manufacturers as custom runs so weren’t trying to buy them on the open market like everyone else. Even other clouds had major problems getting them at some points.
  • johntash 6y ago
    There were lots of GPUs being bought up for crypto mining reasons, but that doesn't seem like it has been as big of a deal in the consumer market recently (at least locally.) If anything, it generated a lot of cheap secondhand cards for sale in some places.
  • sudosysgen 6y ago
    There was never a real issue getting 4 or 5 commodity-grade GPUs. At worst, you had to pay a 20-30% premium.