[kerbyhughes]

Part of what you're paying for with the AWS instance is "easy", documented integration with the rest of the AWS ecosystem, including things like access control and monitoring.

If you already know how to run the desired workloads on the laptops, then most of what remains is a way to make it accessible to the rest of your infrastructure. Cloudflared, nebula, or wireguard tunnels are a few options.

I use nebula (https://github.com/slackhq/nebula) to network all the machines of my homelab, regardless of how they're connected to the internet, including my laptops. I do think there's space for more lightweight and batteries-included options to take advantage of connected resources in this model.

[harrygeez]

I'm curious what does nebula offer that a VPN doesn't?