I’ve no idea what the cost is since the company pays for it — I do need the horsepower to run some really large models and I suspect most people don’t need this kind of spec. But for my company it’s just part of the cost of doing business.
There’s no IT and I can provision instances of any type (subject to limits) at any time.
VSCode is free if you self-host it. There are corporate tiers with virtual desktops etc, and you can pay for services as GitHub pilot if you want.
Anyhow there a wealth of free extensions to customize it and the setup is really straightforward. I have version management git in a private GitHub project for version management. You can add extensions for rendering graphs in good quality and importing and exporting stuff is easy.
I have not been able to figure out why some people prefer to use Jupiter notebook as it is.
Do you turn that lightbulb off at night when you clock out? Just curious.
32 vCPU / 256 GB instances like r6a.8xlarge is about $900/month (r6ad which has local disk is about $100/month more), I don't see there being much other major costs with such setup?
Unlike individuals, large enterprises rarely pay sticker price but a heavily discounted negotiated rate for software and services. I can’t say how much exactly but it’s less than that.
And on a separate but related note, does it change the way you think about how you spend your time coding? (Assuming the costs do ramp up with usage such that time literally does equal money?)