Not explicitly, but RcouF1uZ4gsC talked about "an extremely small cost in terms of time and money" Starting a VM with a cloud provider you already know and use

Not explicitly, but RcouF1uZ4gsC talked about "an extremely small cost in terms of time and money" Starting a VM with a cloud provider you already know and use may be extremely fast, but adopting a new cloud provider isn't. Even if your organisation is so unbureaucratic you can get a new provider set up without any due diligence work, every cloud provider comes with their own oddities. Will they have a wacky set of default firewall rules? Will they only offer Debian not Ubuntu, if you want an instance with the CUDA drivers already installed? Will they insist you learn what a 'provisioned iops' is before letting you start an instance? Will some GPUs only be available in certain regions? Will accounts have quota limits that vary by region, availability zone and GPU type, some of which default to zero?