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How Cloud Regions Are Auctioning Compute to Fill Gaps
Cloud providers are increasingly using auction-based pricing for spare compute capacity — think AWS Spot Instances on steroids, but now for GPUs and reserved blocks. Lucas and Luna break down how this market works using the example of a mid-size AI startup that saved 62% on inference costs by bidding on idle A100 clusters across three regions. They explore why Google Cloud's dynamic pricing model differs from Azure's quota-based approach, the rise of third-party brokers like Spot by NetApp (formerly Spot.io), and what happens when the auction clears at zero bids. If you manage a…
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