But that’s pretty much what the cloud and distributed computing has been about for three decades. I was launching netbatch jobs in 1995 and never knew if they w

But that’s pretty much what the cloud and distributed computing has been about for three decades. I was launching netbatch jobs in 1995 and never knew if they were running on HPUX, AIX, or SunOS. The OP has added an enormous amount of risk to their workflow by relying on incredibly unreliable flash storage. I wouldn’t touch this strategy with a ten foot pole. I can be hardware agnostic with five nines redundancy with cloud services.