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Re:Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances by dragonwriter on Friday May 05, 2023 @05:55PM (#35835583)
Google Cloud does this, too, for GPUs on their compute instances, but the approval (I assume if there is manual approval, there are conditions which trigger it that I missed) was near instant in my experience.
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Re:Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances by carbocation on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:17PM (#35836313)
This is oddly downvoted, but it is accurate.

When I use university-linked accounts, I get insta-approved for almost whatever I want. (2,048 spot T4 GPUs? Go for it.)

When using my personal CC-backed account, my max quota is often an order of magnitude lower.

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