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by gtvwill 718 days ago
Why? If cost is prohibitive maybe you need less AWS and more Ububtu Server. That is to say, host your own. You'd be surprised how much host you can get out of a few nucs strewn across the country.

AWS isn't actually that great for most users, I mean how many of you are actually going to need overnight scaling to x thousand servers? Probably bugger all. But folks sure do like paying the premium for it!

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I took a quick look at AWS to check the prices... I have to say that for serverless services like Lambda, we're not looking at very attractive reductions compared to Vercel where I'm currently...

In the end, I'm not going to waste my time trying to save pennies... However, for other AI services, it's rather interesting because $5/hours for an A100 on Replicate is exorbitant.