Spot vs on-demand GPUs: what breaks, and how do you make spot safe?
Short answer (October 10, 2026): spot GPUs are the same hardware as on-demand GPUs at a deep discount (AWS and Azure advertise up to 90% off, GCP up to 91%), but the cloud can take the machine back with 30 seconds to 2 minutes of notice, and anything not saved somewhere durable is gone. Spot is saf…
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- 2026-10-10 15:24 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Spot vs on-demand GPUs: what breaks, and how do you make spot safe?