While the authors article is relevant if you are stuck on GCP, on AWS you will n...

shusson on July 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Benchmarking TensorFlow on Cloud CPUs: Cheaper Dee...

While the authors article is relevant if you are stuck on GCP, on AWS you will not have the same conclusion. This is because AWS has GPU spot instances (P2) which can be found for ~80% cheaper depending your region [1]. Hopefully one day soon GCP will support preemptible GPU instances.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/pricing/

likelynew on July 9, 2017 [–]

When I started it was even cheaper(~10% of reserved cost), but even now, it's pretty cheap.