AWS is the biggest cloud provider, and so it deserves our attention. If you know how to use AWS and especially if you are familiar with spot requests, it can be a very cost-effective method to train complex deep learning models.
Using AWS for deep learning
A brief introduction to AWS
This section gives you a brief introduction to how AWS works. It describes EC2, AMIs, and how to create a virtual machine in the cloud. This will not be an exhaustive introduction to AWS – there are plenty of tutorials online that will guide you.
AWS is a suite of cloud resources. Another term for it is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), as opposed to Software as a Service (SaaS) or Platform as a Service (PaaS). In IaaS, as opposed to...