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We rent GPUs. When should we buy committed capacity instead of paying on demand, and what do we do with the rest of the demand?

Compare the cost of committed capacity with the demand each additional GPU would actually serve. Keep billing discounts separate from capacity guarantees, and account for bursts without counting the same work twice.

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Compare the cost of committed capacity with the demand each additional GPU would actually serve. Keep billing discounts separate from capacity guarantees, and account for bursts without counting the same work twice.

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FEDITOR'S NOTE

Derive the break-even for each added unit of capacity, use a demand trace rather than a fixed percentile, and preserve the total useful GPU-hours in the blended-cost calculation.

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