No, credits weren't tied to a region but even switching to a few other regions we couldn't get hold of machines. We asked if there was a way to search across all regions so we could switch to where the machines were located. No reply. No A100s or H100s at all. We were just looking for more than 24GB VRAM which is not a big ask. I don't understand the AWS credits; however I noticed they asked a lot of questions about our business model, technology and customers. Draw from that what you will.
Credits or no credits, aren't you looking for those machines just like any other AWS customer? Credits are just to reimburse the expenses after you booked something, no? Means that if I go right now and pay in cash i would expect the same luck.
I'm forced to operate in AWS GovCloud for my work and it's the same thing, but even worse. Old instance types and there's barely any of them in there. Mind you, there's two GovCloud regions and the East one is even worse! There's basically nothing outside general compute instance types, so you're really stuck with just the West region. P4's are officially available in only 1 AZ, come in exactly 1 size, and are one of the most expensive instances in the region. P3's (initially released in 2018!) are so hard to come by it's infuriating. Meanwhile we have a horde of AWS reps and they all claim there's availability.
Really feels like if you need accelerated compute GCP is the better option these days. At least there you can rewrite in Jax if it comes down to it and opt for TPU's.
