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No Amazon announcement day would be complete without new AWS EC2 features. One of today's machine-learning related announcements, Elastic GPUs, allows GPUs to be attached to one of eight existing EC2 instance types, as opposed to forcing the user to pick from a smaller range of EC2 instances pre-equipped with GPUs.
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It's hard not to see this as a direct slap at Google's recent moves. Earlier in November, Google offered GPU instances for the first time on its cloud, allowing up to eight GPUs to be attached to an existing system. Whatever the motive, it allows more flexibility in dealing with GPUs in EC2, although it isn't generally available yet for Amazon customers; the only time frame...