A couple of years ago I worked for a local cloud server provider, as a backend developer. Some of the work I did moved the company into deploying VPS instances using OpenStack. Our backend code was mainly PHP-based; so we used OpenCloud for the purpose - extending it where needed (when we started it didn't support all we needed; I extended things in such a way so that when we did need to upgrade OpenCloud, it would gracefully work without breaking anything - it was a gamble that I didn't know if it would really work - just had a hunch - 9 months in we upgraded, and it all worked perfectly).

Anyhow - at that time, seeing what we had available for servers and such (we were competing somewhat with DO) - I suggested we add support for GPU instances and maybe pivot toward an ML offering of some sort. Not gut our bread-n-butter, but offer up some kind of ML package for those that needed or wanted it.

I was shot down by management as it being too "pie in the sky" - not even demand or something like that. To be honest, I'm not even sure they understood what I was trying to convey, so maybe part of the problem was mine as well.

The company was eventually sold and I moved on, but seeing now how these kinds of services are in demand, I sometimes wonder on what "could've been". Ever since taking my first MOOC in ML (Ng's ML Class in 2011) - I've tried to interest employers in applying what (little) I know on the subject. I'm not an expert, but I'd love to apply my learning (on top of the 25+ years of software dev experience I already have). Today, I'm in the middle of the Udacity Nanodegree MOOC - I doubt much of that will transfer for my current employer, but maybe the general knowledge I'm getting of TensorFlow and Keras, among other bits, might help in the future.

I think, though, that FloydHub might be fun to play around with for future personal ML/DL projects as time goes on; I look forward to trying it out someday soon!