Yes. This is exceptionally beneficial in terms of testing and experimentation. Virtual machines in the cloud shine for non perpetual workloads, such as learning

Yes. This is exceptionally beneficial in terms of testing and experimentation. Virtual machines in the cloud shine for non perpetual workloads, such as learning and experimentation. They shine less for long term (3yr+), stable workloads, where buying hardware and layering on something like Azure Stack, can save a company huge amounts of money.