Cloud pricing is competitive and thus a good proxy for relative on-prem costs if you keep the on-prem hardware busy. If you want to buy the capability to run th

Cloud pricing is competitive and thus a good proxy for relative on-prem costs if you keep the on-prem hardware busy. If you want to buy the capability to run the job on-prem, but the hardware sits idle most of the time, then NVMe might be optimal. However, you should be aware that these constraints have greatly increased the cost of the job itself.