I'm curious what others here are paying for a cloud VM for dev tasks. My current favorite VM size on Azure is Standard_NC6_Promo that includes a K80 GPU, 56GB RAM with 8 vCPUs for $0.39/hour.
When you say dev tasks, are you talking about machine learning? What dev tasks do you need 56G of ram for?
I’m trying to figure out who these products are for. 0.39/h * 8h = $3.20/day, or approx $70/working month. And that’s on top of buying the computer you have to connect to this, with the annoyance of extra latency in all tasks. I can see the use of occasional demanding tasks using very large VMs on inexpensive computers, but I don’t see how it works out in the long term if that’s your man machine that you always live out of.
Sorry - yes ML tasks. The pricing is on par with a D8v3 but offers more RAM and a GPU, but likely with slower CPU perf (though I haven't benchmarked the machine).
My laptop doesn't have a discrete GPU, so I can't do any ML tasks on it so running a Jupyter server on a remote VM is my way of doing those tasks.
