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by wbraun 2324 days ago
I followed this tutorial when I Fallout 4 first came out and I had not yet built a desktop. It worked pretty well and, given spot prices, was pretty cost competitive with a gaming desktop if you only cared about one or two games.

AWS inbound traffic is free but persistent storage is not so I downloaded the entire game whenever I spun up the AWS instance, which probably happened 10+ times. I still wonder how much that cost Steam in terms out outbound traffic....