This is the approximately going rate for all the major cloud providers (links [0]). Sure, you could buy your own SSDs, but how are you going to connect them to

This is the approximately going rate for all the major cloud providers (links [0]). Sure, you could buy your own SSDs, but how are you going to connect them to the VMs? I suppose this might be where their profit is, especially because these are logical volumes anyway. But it's not like you can just go out and beat this price at home with minimal effort. [0] Amazon ($0.1/GB): https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/ Azure ($0.075/GB): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-di... Google ($0.17/GB): https://cloud.google.com/persistent-disk/#section-7 https://cloud.google.com/persistent-disk/#section-7 edit: formatting