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How Cloud Contracts Now Guarantee Instance Availability
Episode 79 of The Cloud Business Podcast dives into the newest frontier in cloud contracting: guaranteed instance availability. Lucas and Luna explore how hyperscalers like AWS, Azure, and GCP are now offering contractual SLAs that guarantee access to specific instance types — including GPUs and high-memory VMs — during defined windows. They break down the trigger: the AI training boom and GPU shortages that peaked in 2024-2025, which forced enterprise customers to demand firm commitments on compute availability. The hosts walk through a typical clause structure — capacity reservations with…
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