Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?
by Aeolun on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @08:12AM
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I wonder, what do you do if you want multi-region failover in your home setup?
I’m fully in agreement that owning your own hardware is cheaper. But if you want extreme redundancy as a company now and be mostly certain it works, you move to AWS instead of trying to build a team that will set that all up for you.
Also, when doing tensorflow things on AWS I can just temporarily rent that monster server with 12? GPU’s to train my model in a few hours, instead of waiting for my home server to do the same thing in days (even though that’s cheaper).
I’m fully in agreement that owning your own hardware is cheaper. But if you want extreme redundancy as a company now and be mostly certain it works, you move to AWS instead of trying to build a team that will set that all up for you.
Also, when doing tensorflow things on AWS I can just temporarily rent that monster server with 12? GPU’s to train my model in a few hours, instead of waiting for my home server to do the same thing in days (even though that’s cheaper).