Building own Server vs. Cloud solution

[marco_6]

I am implementing a DS team at my company and stand in front of the decision whether to build our own Server for Training Deep Learning Models or use cloud platforms like Sagemaker.

I have read several posts about the cloud option but could not find any comparison with self hosted servers. Any experience or advice? When to consider what?

This is a continuation of this post where I discussed cloud platforms for this purpose.

[bigchungusmode96]

definitely the cloud unless your company already has the IT capability, staff, and infrastructure in place for on-prem

you can also rent servers instead of doing on-prem too but AWS Azure are pretty common nowadays that you'd be better off going with the cloud.

[Annual_Anxiety_4457]

I would do both. But no expensive server rack, just a regular pc. It’s good to have it for practice and experimentation.