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keep in mind that if you're a bigger customer, aws discounts are huge (often >50% off of sticker). if the payback were 16 months instead of 8, it becomes a much tougher sell (esp with GPUs improving rapidly over time)

>>somsak+(OP)
AWS does not offer great discounts on the GPUs at this point, as they don't have nearly enough of them to meet demand. I'm no longer at a startup, and have worked at a couple of larger companies.

That said I'm mostly responding to the "two guys in a garage" comment with this. Larger companies are going to have different needs altogether.