For some use cases though, the cloud is just amazingly cheap and fast. We are currently scaling our (computationally cheap) batch re-training jobs on AWS Lambda

For some use cases though, the cloud is just amazingly cheap and fast. We are currently scaling our (computationally cheap) batch re-training jobs on AWS Lambda and it‘s quite incredible that you can train thousands of models in parallel with TBs of RAM. There is no on-premise alternative.