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by MaxBarraclough 2164 days ago
Related reading: Ask HN: How did you significantly reduce your AWS cost? (2017) [0]

The top comment is great. Two easy wins:

* Putting an S3 endpoint in your VPC gives any traffic to S3 its own internal route, so it's not billed like public traffic. (It's curious that this isn't the default.)

* Auto-shutdown your test servers overnight and on the weekends

See also this thread from 2 days ago, Show HN: I built a service to help companies save on their AWS bills [1]

Those threads aren't specific to GPU instances though.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15587627

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23776894