[ptrik]

> I went from 4vCPUs and 16GB of RAM to 8vCPUs and 16GB of RAM, which reduced the duration by about ~20%, making it comparable to the performance I get on my MBP. Also, because I'm only using the scraping server for ~2h the difference in price is negligible.

Good lesson on cloud economics. Below certain threshold we get linear performance gain with more expensive instance type. It is essentially the same amount of spending but you would save time running the same workload with more expensive machine but for shorter period of time.