The #GPU revolution is having impacts beyond just purchasing accelerator chips and attaching data centers to green energy. The infrastructure of the web landscape, including CPUs and conventional cloud providers, is evolving.
Before GPUs, the pressure to reduce public cloud lock-in with egregious egress fees was mostly empty customer threats with no teeth. It was like a hostage negotiation with no leverage. There was no technical or legal need to listen to customers. Change is on the horizon. The public cloud cannot support the immense scale of GPUs needed for the mounting #AI wave, from sclerotic networking to the pain of virtualizing over Infiniband. With legal pressures from Europe and companies needing to move an enormous amount of data outside the public cloud for AI training runs, public cloud companies are finally revising their monopolistic lock-in tactics, which has been a company goal at Hydra Host since its founding. We now see the beginning of the end of egress fees and economic cloud lock-in.
Of course, there are catches, like having to close all of your public cloud accounts to avoid egress fees; however, GPUs and the need for a cluster of interconnected GPUs are helping usher in actual cloud agnosticism. A technical shift has upset the balance of power in the #cloud #infrastructure world for the customer's good despite the cost of GPUs.
Thanks to GPUs, cloud infrastructure has never been more profitable or better for end users.
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