Can you actually buy GPUs now? An advantage of Amazon in the past was that they were actually available there, where they weren’t available to buy in practice.
You can even buy Tesla V100s that power AWS accelerated instances.
Over the last decade there was often a major problem in GPU supply. Huge users like Amazon were presumably buying in bulk direct from manufacturers as custom runs so weren’t trying to buy them on the open market like everyone else.
Even other clouds had major problems getting them at some points.
If anything, it generated a lot of cheap secondhand cards for sale in some places.
The demand right now has also fallen dramatically even from regular customers.
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