Amazon Deals for Machine Learning
October 8, 2020
“Amazon Announces Price Cuts on GPU Instances in AWS Sagemaker” contains an interesting statement; to wit:
Amazon Web Services is cutting the price of GPU instances on Sagemaker, its fully managed machine learning service. AWS said customers will see up to 18% in price reductions on all ml.p2 and ml.p3 GPU instances. The price cuts will apply from October 1 for all SageMaker components…
Several questions come to mind:
- Are Microsoft’s sales policies becoming a problem for Amazon AWS?
- Has the JEDI generated an uptick in interest in Azure from US allies?
- Are deals like Oracle’s play to land Zoom in Big Red’s cloud sounding an alarm?
On the other hand, Amazon may be sufficiently confident to cut prices because its cloud business continues to surge.
Price wars among gasoline filling stations were common in the 1950s. Could the sales tactic find traction in 2020, which has been an interesting year.
Stephen E Arnold, October 10, 2020
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