Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances
EDIT: if you really need GPU compute power, go buy a GPU from the computer store around the corner - they are cheap, fast and available.<p>I gave up on ec2 when they started requiring you "request for quota" to start a gpu instance.<p>You have to "request for quota" even if you want to run a single instance.<p>You have to specify which specific instance type you want.<p>You have to specify which region you want it in.<p>Then you sit back and wait for some human to "approve your request".<p>In my case <i>this took 24 hours</i>.<p>In this time I literally could have walked (not driven) down to the local computer store, bought a computer, pushed it back to my house in a shopping cart, spent a few hours configuring it and still be left with 16 hours to have a sleep, eat and do some other things.<p>AWS quota system is so far from "scalable" and "elastic" that it's effectively useless.  You can't design any sort of infrastructure around that sort of quota system.<p>I dumped AWS at that point.  Mind you, Azure has exactly the same quota system.<p>Seriously, just rent a server from Ionos or Hetzner or get a fast Internet connection and self host.  It's faster and better and cheaper than any of the big clouds.