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How Cloud Contracts Now Include GPU Lifecycle Guarantees
Episode 57 of The Cloud Business Podcast examines the newest clause appearing in enterprise cloud contracts: GPU lifecycle guarantees. Lucas and Luna break down why hyperscalers like AWS and Microsoft are now promising a minimum usable lifespan for GPU instances, how this emerged from the AI training hardware crunch of 2023-2025, and what it means for cost forecasting and capacity planning. They walk through a real example: a mid-size fintech that signed a three-year commitment with Azure and secured a guarantee that its A100 clusters would not be deprecated or power-capped before month 30…
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