How does that pencil out? Is that shared?

If it's dedicated, assuming a 3 year useful life, that comes out to ~$504, which barely covers the graphics card.

I guess the 1080 is kind of old now, maybe that helps.

A couple points:

1. It advertises itself as a gaming service, not a 9-5+overtime service. Granted, some people do game for >8 hours per day, but those people probably own their own hardware. Which leads into...

2. Many people used cloud gaming services for casual play. It doesn’t make sense for someone to buy a gaming computer when all they want is the occasional PUBG match or to play a grand total of 15 hours of Far Cry.

With those two assumptions, you can oversell the machines because the average user will be offline for the majority of the time.

Ah makes sense, thanks. I'm guessing that if a number of people start using it for ML workloads, they're going to tamp down on that. Because holy crap, that's an awesome deal, $14/instance doesn't even pay for the power for a 24/7 ML workload.

But maybe the messaging will be enough to stop a significant number of people from jumping on that.

That seems like an amazing deal. Can you drop a link to Shadow? That's such a vague name I don't have a lot to go on. I am interested to dig into the details of this deal. Is there some kind of Acceptable Use Policy or is it more like a pay-as-you-go VPS?

Not OP but https://shadow.tech/

Thanks. Looks like Windows only for now, but at least future Linux support is alluded to in their FAQ.

https://shadow.tech/usen/faq/operating-system/can-i-use-shad...

Unfortunately Shadow is unavailable in the UK until August. Apart from that, it's a way better deal than Workstream.