What Happens When Hyperscalers and Clouds Buy Most Servers and Storage?

Re:What Happens When Hyperscalers and Clouds Buy Most Server... by marcosdumay on Saturday April 20, 2024 @01:08PM (#40098789)

> With as much margin as cloud takes, there will be increased interest in on-prem and mixed environments.

Or cheaper clouds...

I wonder how much lock-in the current clouds actually have. And if they'll fully take customers down or entire industries hostage like the mainframes did.

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Re:What Happens When Hyperscalers and Clouds Buy Most Server... by latchkey on Saturday April 20, 2024 @05:58PM (#40101377)

GPU clouds use long term reserved cloud contracts as lock-in. Lambda started off kind of bragging about shorter term contracts on their website and then changed that to one year after the demand picked up (and investors piled in tons of money).

https://lambdalabs.com/blog/voltron-data-case-study-why-ml-t...

"While most other cloud companies offer contracts starting at one year, you can reserve a Lambda Reserved Cloud Cluster starting at six months."

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