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Re:$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst by traceroute66 on Friday October 11, 2024 @08:57AM (#41809079)
> 999999% uptime

I've said it before and I've said it again....

Read the cloud provider small-print before you go around boasting about how great their SLAs are.

Most of the time they are not worth the paper they are written on.

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Re:$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst by kjs3 on Friday October 11, 2024 @03:05PM (#41812442)
This is beyond true. Read and understand what your cloud SLAs are, not what you think they are or what you think they should be. There was significant consternation generated when I pointed out that the SLA for availability for an Azure storage blob was only 4 nines with zone redundancy.

https://azure.microsoft.com/files/Features/Reliability/Azure...

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Re:$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst by latchkey on Friday October 11, 2024 @05:49PM (#41814137)
Not just the fine print, but also look at how they present themselves. A provider with pictures of equipment and detailed specifications is always going to be more interesting than a provider with just a marketing website and a "contact us" page.
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