This is a trend we noticed early last year, so we started building a single console for all these clouds at https://shadeform.ai.
It has been amazing to watch this industry explode, and we believe it is great for consumers. The same instances on Amazon versus these alternative providers are 3x more expensive.
NVIDIA and many hardware providers are leaning into this trend. As clouds become more and more vertically integrated, AMD, NVIDIA, and others will benefit from spreading their hardware to more clouds.
Knowing that these models will not be running in 3 easily controlled clouds may also benefit us in the long run as each provider will have different levels of comfort with models of varying capabilities.
If you’re looking for a new GPU cloud because of this, we’ve put all these providers in on place, console, and API so you can find a new one for your needs at https://shadeform.ai
We have aggregated most cloud GPU providers into a single platform, so you have an easier time getting the machines you need with our aggregated availability. You can check live availability and prices at https://shadeform.ai
This is great feedback for us. We'll make it more transparent. We charge whatever the underlying provider charges + 5% when you deploy into one of our accounts. All provider prices are displayed on our main platform page.
Thank you for the feedback. We're still early in this and are planning on moving in some of the directions you mentioned.
- We agree that moving towards 'Karpenter for multiple clouds' would be more valuable for some use cases and hope to support that feature soon.
- We do help customers with one-off quota requests, and it is a feature we want to bake into our platform on top of aggregating demand in our accounts. Many companies with AWS/GCE/AKS quota still cannot reliably get on-demand instances due to capacity shortages.
We have aggregated all providers into a single API and platform if that is helpful for you. We generally have A100s and A10s across one of our providers. https://shadeform.ai
Could Microsoft, Apple, Google, or Amazon place a bid
Strategically, a consumer or cloud co w/ a banking arm might make a great strategic position. And the new relationships with the customer base of SVB could accelerate the acquirer
super interesting. How do you workout the idiosyncrasies between different providers? If you restrict yourself to IaaS that shouldn't be an issue, but functions vs lambda vs cloud-run vs etc all have significant differences.
Feel free to email at ed at shadeform dot ai