Actually computing is fine for most use cases (spot instances, preemptible VMs on GCP) and have been used in lots of situations, even at CERN. Where it also exc

Actually computing is fine for most use cases (spot instances, preemptible VMs on GCP) and have been used in lots of situations, even at CERN. Where it also excels is if you need any kind of infrastructure, because no HPC center has figured a reasonable approach to that (some are trying with k8s). Also, obviously, you get a huge selection of hardware. Where cloud/aws doesn’t make sense is storage, especially if you need egress, and if you actually need IB