> That said, the real value of cloud services is you can sometimes get more done with 2TB of RAM for 4 hours than you can with 32GB of RAM for 4 months. All wit

> That said, the real value of cloud services is you can sometimes get more done with 2TB of RAM for 4 hours than you can with 32GB of RAM for 4 months. All without the need to have that much computing power anywhere near you. I know that. Alas, I can't get more programming done with 2TB of RAM in 4 hours than I can get with 32GB in three years. Human limitations.