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dragonwriter on May 5, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances

Google Cloud does this, too, for GPUs on their compute instances, but the approval (I assume if there is manual approval, there are conditions which trigger it that I missed) was near instant in my experience.

carbocation on May 5, 2023 [–]

This is oddly downvoted, but it is accurate.

When I use university-linked accounts, I get insta-approved for almost whatever I want. (2,048 spot T4 GPUs? Go for it.)

When using my personal CC-backed account, my max quota is often an order of magnitude lower.

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