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General purpose not AI specific? I can't believe it.

• jackling 10mo ago
  AWS has plenty of AI specific offerings for EC2. The P, G and Trn families hit a wide range of AI use cases. Why wouldn't they also offer a general purpose one for typical compute?
  • swiftcoder 10mo ago
    Plus with the AI boom, making sure that general purpose compute jobs aren't competing for valuable GPUs is very worthwhile...
    • jackling 10mo ago
      Where do you see GPUs in this release? This is a CPU-based instance.
      • jldugger 10mo ago
        Thats the point -- if you only ship GPU instances then every workload ties up precious GPU time.
        • jackling 10mo ago
          Yea I misread the parent comment, my bad.
  • arrowleaf 10mo ago
    You missed the touch of sarcasm. It's a joke, recent AWS announcements have been heavily AI-focused.
    • jackling 10mo ago
      I don't really see how this is a productive comment for the article. Most of big tech focuses on AI and those typically get traction in the news. AWS specically has plenty of non-AI announcements: https://aws.amazon.com/new/ https://aws.amazon.com/new/ Parent comment made a low quality joke that lacked substance.
      • ciberado 10mo ago
        I think that is a joke that reflects pretty well the feeling of many people (me included) that miss the ten years ago AWS and their ability to amaze us with solutions for practical problems, instead of marketing claims on PowerPoints.