[vbezhenar]

Most clouds I've used allow you to create VM with local disk, and that might be cheaper that network disk.

[jackdoe]

This is the 500$ per month option they are describing in the post, the magnificent 300,000 IOPS, the network disk is 1500$ for 16000 IOPS

not to mention then you have all the issues people are discussing managing your own backups, snapshots and replication and etc