Stability AI defaulted on payments to AWS, owed Google Cloud and CoreWeave money

CoreWeave owns and runs their own infra, they aren't a middleman.

There are middlemen that can actually get you better prices and availability than you can get yourself, because they buy or rent in volume, and can pit the hyper scalers against each other to get better prices.

If you want even a handful of A100s on GCP you need to buy reserved instances, but lots of resellers will rent them to you hourly, and they have RIs underneath.

Convenience of not having to manually rediscover the optimal purchase plan.

Also, convenience of canceling any services in future. There is a whole industry that specializes in canceling sticky SaaS and cloud subscriptions/contracts.

I never understood this approach. I ended up cutting ties with middle man providers. They just caused delays. I ended up saving tons of money.

price and or convenience