Cloud GPU Instances: What Are the Options? - DATAVERSITY

Click here to learn more about Gilad David Maayan. If you're running demanding machine learning and deep learning models on your laptop or on GPU-equipped machines owned by your organization, there is a new and compelling alternative. All major cloud providers offer cloud GPUs – compute instances with powerful hardware acceleration, which you can rent per hour, letting you run deep learning workloads on the cloud. Let's review the concept of cloud GPUs and the offerings by the big three cloud providers – Amazon, Azure, and Google Cloud. A cloud graphics processing unit (GPU) provides hardware acceleration for an application, without requiring that a GPU is deployed on the user's local device.