Public cloud for AI can cost 10-20x more than on-prem, warns cloud expert
DavidLinthicum · x · 2026-09-09
David Linthicum pushes back on the narrative that public cloud is always cheaper for AI workloads: for many, it can cost 10-20x more than on-prem. His advice is to run the numbers for your specific needs rather than blindly choosing the cloud 'easy button.'
Related event: Analyst Warns Cloud AI Can Cost 20x On-Prem(2 posts)→
More from Infra
- AWS tutorial: fleet-wide edge CV model lifecycle with SageMaker SDK v3, ~$0.07 per run — AWS ML Blog · 2026-10-27
- Qwen3.8-27B hits 40 tok/s on Jetson Thor with INT4 + MTP, accuracy beats FP16 — No-Dragonfly6246 · 2026-10-27
- Celesto launches CI runners nearly 90% cheaper than GitHub Actions, with agent sandboxes — aniketmaurya · 2026-10-27
- Supabase founders on rebuilding the backend for a billion AI-built apps — Latent Space · 2026-10-27
- AW-0 runs at 230ms on a single RTX 5090, 2.4x faster than autoregressive code planning — trevordarrell · 2026-10-27
- Site tracks US city council topics: data centers rank only behind pickleball courts — zakkohane · 2026-10-27