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How much per hour do you suppose this'll cost on EC2?

Currently a c6i.32xlarge (128 core, 256 GB) is $5.44/hr, or up to $9.68/hr for an r6id.32xlarge with 1 TB of RAM and 4x1900 GB of NVMe.

Of course, that's not even their biggest instance. For a whopping $109/hr, you can get a u-12tb1.112xlarge with 448 cores and 12 TB of RAM. I really have no idea what you would use that for. Machine learning with neural networks that would put OpenAI to shame?

$109/hr would be a cheap rate to hire a mechanic to work on a car, so the fact that anyone has access to that kind of compute for that price is pretty impressive!

It wouldn't take you long paying that rate to just buy an equivalent machine (even at MSRP).

Reaching $20,000 at $100/hr is only a week, non-stop. I don't know what it looks like to want to use a machine like that for compute, but that makes the cloud look insanely expensive.

For the 448 core box you're looking at more like $60k, so that's a whole 3 weeks.

People use the cloud for many things, but saving money on compute is never one of them.

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