Re:Ask HN: Who uses Azure ML?
by conjectures on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:28AM
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Not MS Azure, but AWS - alot of their more advanced APIs seem to rack up bills quite quickly.
Their prediction API is $0.0001 per hit. So if you get r requests per second cost per hour is r0.000160^2.
Cost to rent an EC2 server is x per hour.
So if x<r(0.0001)(60^2) it's cheaper to rent. Say you need an r3.large that's x=$0.166. So it's cheaper if you get more than 0.46 requests per second, which sounds like quite a light load.
Their prediction API is $0.0001 per hit. So if you get r requests per second cost per hour is r0.000160^2. Cost to rent an EC2 server is x per hour.
So if x<r(0.0001)(60^2) it's cheaper to rent. Say you need an r3.large that's x=$0.166. So it's cheaper if you get more than 0.46 requests per second, which sounds like quite a light load.