[gnerix]

> €1.4 an hour for the CPU/GPU alone, plus a couple more Euro for hard disk usage and long-term storage (usage was pretty high during setup, which accounts at least for half the amount)

The Azure solution sounds much more expensive than the prices quoted in the article

[rcarmo]

At the time I did not have access to preemptible instances, which lowers costs considerably. You did not quote the next few paragraphs...