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As a point of information (I don't disagree with anything you've said), just because public clouds advertise a gigantic instance type doesn't necessarily mean y
by maxbond 1y ago
As a point of information (I don't disagree with anything you've said), just because public clouds advertise a gigantic instance type doesn't necessarily mean you can provision it. I saw a situation at work once where the ML researchers couldn't figure out why they were failing to provision a box. The request would be pending for a few hours before failing. AWS eventually said they simply didn't have the capacity in that AZ, and it was unlikely to ever succeed.
- jiggawatts 1y agoConversely, if you're in some co-location facility and they run out of space/cooling/power, then you might be painted into a very small corner for an extended period. This happened to several government customers because they all shared a common facility. Entire departments were squeezing blood from a stone because they had an iron rule that "no more servers", not even VMs... for years. In the public cloud, you can almost always just pick another AZ, another region, or another SKU. Because of how Spot priced compute works, a PayG customer will essentially always be able to provision something, somewhere.