On AWS the default quota for GPU instances is ZERO. Recently I had to do some performance testing. In the past I would have quickly started 5 or 6 instances of

On AWS the default quota for GPU instances is ZERO. Recently I had to do some performance testing. In the past I would have quickly started 5 or 6 instances of different types, run my performance tests, shut them down and be done within 2 hours. Since AWS introduced zero quota GPU instances, I had to request quota for one specific GPU instance type in one region and then waited 24 hours till it was “approved”. At that point I completely gave up on AWS as being a viable part of any GPU architecture. It gets no less scalable or elastic than that. I literally could have gone to the shop and bought a fleet of machines and built them at home in the time it took AWS to approve a quota of one GPU instance in one region.