Re:Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances
by SilasX on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:04PM
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Couldn't you also buy GPUs in person with cash and mine with them?
Re:Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances
by philistine on Saturday May 06, 2023 @08:17AM
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That's when you end up with the electricity bill of a weed farm and you get cops busting down your doors.
Re:Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances
by SilasX on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:36AM
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That would be true regardless of the means of obtaining the GPUs -- I was just replying to the issue of the cash->GPU funnel, not asserting that any other part of the operation is easy.
Re:Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances
by KyeRussell on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:43PM
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> If Amazon to implement built-in option to track suspicious jumps of AWS costs then it's not only gonna cut on fraud, but on overall AWS profits.
OK. https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-cost-anomaly-...
Re:Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances
by yrtewrtwr on Friday May 05, 2023 @11:33PM
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you can buy prepaid cards with cash at any drug store. you have to pay with cash for most prepaid cards (or use a debit transaction).
the downside is the insanely high service fee -- 7 or 8 bucks per 500
On other hand credit card fraud is real problem especially due to fact that Amazon don't want to add any KYC burden on their customers or try to track down any anomaly spending. After all good chunk of AWS profits come out of fact how bad people of tracking their cloud costs.
If Amazon to implement built-in option to track suspicious jumps of AWS costs then it's not only gonna cut on fraud, but on overall AWS profits.