I used to be an AWS true believer. Now I find it increasingly difficult to be enthused about anything AWS. It’s all so expensive, complex and locked in. I recently shut down everything I had on AWS except Route 53 and workmail, both of which I really like. The craziest AWS thing is that they moved all GPU instances to a quota system where you have to request access, specifying the number and type and location of instances that you want to run. It’s like Azure which has an equally terrible quota system. Anyhow I needed to run some performance tests in GPU instances. In the past I would have spun up a bunch of different instance types, run my tests and moved on. In this case I applied for a quota of one machine type and 24 hours later AWS got back to me to approve my request to run one instance. At that point I gave up on the idea of AWS being the heart of any GPU based infrastructure.