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Re:AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different by iLoveOncall on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @06:36PM (#32932495)
It is clickbait, the real title should be "AWS vs. GCP on-demand provisioning of GPU resources performance is wildly different".

That said, while I agree that launch time and provisioning error rate are not sufficient to define reliability, they are definitely a part of it.

Re:AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different by tl_donson on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:51AM (#32940660)
“ AWS vs. GCP on-demand provisioning of GPU resources performance is wildly different”

yeah i guess it does make sense that one didn’t win the a/b test

Re:AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different by lelandfe on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @06:46PM (#32932586)
> wildly different

For this, I'd prefer a title that lets me draw my own conclusions. 84 errors out of 3000 doesn't sound awful to me...? But what do I know – maybe just give me the data:

"1 in 3000 GPUs fail to spawn on AWS. GCP: 84"

"Time to provision GPU with AWS: 11.4s. GCP: 42.6s"

"GCP >4x avg. time to provision GPU than AWS"

"Provisioning on GCP both slower and more error-prone than AWS"

Re:AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different by esrauch on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @09:38PM (#32933892)
84 of 3000 failed is only "one nine"