There's some truth to this, but for many sporadic jobs the cloud can be quite useful. My favorite applications are the streaming video services that have most o

There's some truth to this, but for many sporadic jobs the cloud can be quite useful. My favorite applications are the streaming video services that have most of their traffic on Friday and Saturday night. You're right that the prices are too high for long, constant workloads, but not about this only being hobbies.