Setting up an Azure VM for Deep learning – Abhik Mitra – Medium

So I just started with the course at http://course.fast.ai/ The basic infrastructure that you need is a GPU enabled PC so that you can train your models on the images quickly. The Author has described how to do it in AWS, but the problem with AWS GPU instances are that is still in some sort of preview and we need to contact Amazon Support for unlocking their P2 Instances. Microsoft Azure on the other hand already has GPU enabled VMs which came out of preview on 1st of December 2016. You can see the promo page here .