[idrathernot]

There is also an overlooked “tail risk” with cloud services that can end up costing you more than a a few entire on-premise rigs if you don’t correctly configure services or forget to shut down a high end vm instance. Yeah you can implement additional scripts and services as a fail-safe, but this adds another layer of complexity that isn’t always trivial (especially for a hobbyist).

I’m not saying that dumping $10k into rapidly depreciating local hardware is the more economical choice, just that people often discount the likelihood and cost of making mistakes in the cloud during their evaluations and the time investment required to ensure you have the correct safeguards in-place.

[anon373839]

Yes. And somehow, those cloud providers just can’t seem to work out how to build a spend limit feature for customers who’d like to prevent that. It must be a really difficult engineering problem…