[paulddraper]

This is documented currently (supposed to be 14 days). [1]

That said, I have found runners to be unnecessarily difficult.

But Jenkins and its own quirks, and when I used GitLab, it used ancient docker-machine and outdated AMIs by default.

I think Buildkite has been the only one to make this easy and scalable. But it is meant for self hosted runners.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/actions/h...

[cnunciato]

Buildkite also has hosted runners (which they all agents): https://buildkite.com/docs/pipelines/hosted-agents

[paulddraper]

It does, but that came second.

It was originally (and still usually) used by those who wanted to self-host runners.