Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud

Re:Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud by Animats on Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:49PM (#22629844)

There are other services like this, mostly for gamers. Vagon is $1.29/hour, plus $8/month. There's no technical problem doing this, but it's an expensive service to provide. The pricing is usually too high to get a market. NVidia's GEForce Now and Google's Stadia are running at a loss for promotional reasons. The game industry's reaction to Stadia is that almost everybody who considered supporting it expects Google will cancel that service.

Is Vagon reselling AWS, or do they have their own data center?

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Re:Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud by hasancanyasar on Thursday March 19, 2020 @03:26PM (#22630738)

Yes, we built vagon on top of AWS with goal of eventually supporting multiple cloud providers. Our thinking is there's already a reliable, state of the art network of datacenters around the globe for our consumption, it makes sense to use it.

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Re:Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud by BubRoss on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:37PM (#22633342)

It might make sense to use it, but why does it make sense to resell it? What are you adding to the equation and who is going to pay 1.29 an hour?

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