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Re:Ask HN: Dedicated GPU Server Providers? by wethebestcoder on Saturday October 19, 2019 @01:06PM (#21299484)
If you go with AWS (like I did) and you forget to turn it off (like I did) they won't hesitate to charge you full price. For me that was a $700 surprise. Then you will discover how impossible talking to anyone at AWS is without a paid support plan. Two or three months later you may get your money back if you suffer through enough hours on hold with them after fighting through the non-paid customer service channels.

So don't use AWS please, for me.

You could try Parsec. They are specifically for gaming PCs. Sadly, if I'm remembering right they use AWS.

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Re:Ask HN: Dedicated GPU Server Providers? by javagram on Saturday October 19, 2019 @02:17PM (#21299874)
You can set up billing alerts with AWS.

I’d definitely recommend anyone using AWS set those up to avoid a surprise bill like you got.

Considering they did have the hardware allocated to you it doesn’t really seem that unfair to me that you had to pay the bill.

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