| Pricing model | Per-instance billing; spot rates vary with demand | Flat-rate monthly pricing scoped to your GPU allocation |
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| GPU availability | Shared capacity; regional availability subject to demand | Dedicated GPU nodes allocated exclusively to your workloads |
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| Training interruptions | Spot instances can be reclaimed mid-job | No interruptions; dedicated capacity runs to completion |
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| Inference latency | Variable; dependent on host load and co-tenancy | Consistent; isolated compute with no noisy-neighbor effect |
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| MLOps tooling | Managed services with per-feature billing (SageMaker, Vertex) | Open stack (MLflow, Kubeflow, Argo) included and managed |
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| Data residency | Configurable; enforcement is your responsibility | Dedicated infrastructure; you define where training data lives |
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| Operations | DIY or expensive managed service add-ons | Fully managed by DevOps and SRE engineers |