Re:Next-Generation GPU-Powered EC2 Instances (G3)
by Jdam on Friday July 14, 2017 @07:55AM
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Funny side note: when I prepared for getting into all this mining and increasing G2 quota in N Virginia from 2 to 20 or so, customer support first needed to check "if this won't disrupt overall region stability". Don't know if this was bs or if scalability in Aws might be worse than we think.
Re:Next-Generation GPU-Powered EC2 Instances (G3)
by jsjohnst on Friday July 14, 2017 @09:45AM
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Used to get told the same thing for GP2 EBS and R3.8xlarge limits in us-west-2 all the time. On a couple occasions was told no, that increasing the limit wasn't possible due to existing commitments in the region, so I'm not entirely sure if it's a canned response or actually a legit concern of theirs.
Re:Next-Generation GPU-Powered EC2 Instances (G3)
by djb_hackernews on Friday July 14, 2017 @09:07AM
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We frequently request account limit increases to 1000-2000 instance limits and get the same canned response. Though I bet in the earlier days capacity allowances for GPUs was probably more sensitive.
https://www.recode.net/2017/4/27/15451726/amazon-q1-2017-ear...
if this is true:
> it was a low as losing 2 cents per hour
then it seems someone should be able to negotiate with you (even if not Amazon), especially if you're willing to use 1,000 or 10,000 instances - and don't need memory, etc.
it seems 2¢ should be within what you might be able to shave off of somewhere...
maybe not, though.