[fidgewidge]

I'd say testing/CI is one of the best cases for renting dedicated metal because of the huge speed increase available, everyone hates slow CI, and CI workers are easy to setup so if hw fails (it probably won't) it's not a big deal, you don't need to scale up again immediately.

[teerak]

Agreed, but I include CI in baseline usage. With testing I mean compute for feature branches, experiments.. that kind of stuff.