You're assuming a certain competency in running the cloud setup. I once had a customer where I've actually used a ~3y old middle of the line laptop (not even a

You're assuming a certain competency in running the cloud setup. I once had a customer where I've actually used a ~3y old middle of the line laptop (not even a dev one) to prove that our software is not at fault for performance problems because it was running all nodes of the production setup/load better than their cloud setup.