> The whole value proposition is to do things cheaper. I don't think this was ever the case, at least, not in the short term or at smaller scales. I always t

> The whole value proposition is to do things cheaper. I don't think this was ever the case, at least, not in the short term or at smaller scales. I always thought the value proposition for AWS was the fact that you could scale up and down nearly instantly and that you didn't have to run your own data center, which was a monster of an expense. AWS made it so a single person could be a startup. With just a couple clicks, you've got a server running, and you only pay for the time you use. Now, maybe you're asking about GPUs specifically...in that case, yeah, I don't know why people would use AWS unless they really only need a couple hours of GPU time per month or something. GPU instances are so expensive that the ROI for buying them yourself hits pretty quickly. You have to REALLY need the rest of the AWS infrastructure to be directly connected to your GPU to make it worthwhile.