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Neither Google Cloud nor Amazon Web Services offers Maxwell-series GPUs. Both jumped, or, to be more precise, are in the process of jumping, from the K-series to the P100 series.

When I google around a bit, I see several results talking about the software licensing cost model for the M-series GPUs.

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There are no datacenter class Maxwell-series GPUs. They never released a version with ECC SRAM and so Amazon and Google never used them in production.

Part of the fault was GDDR5's limitations that involved trickery to make the Kepler-series work.

Pascal is coming with ECC because HBM2 comes with ECC built-in.

Several cloud providers have been offering P100 GPUs for a while now: https://www.nimbix.net/nimbix-cloud-demand-pricing/

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