Our CI pipelines can spin up some seriously meaty hardware, run some very resource intensive tests, and destroy the infrastructure when finished. Bonus points:

Our CI pipelines can spin up some seriously meaty hardware, run some very resource intensive tests, and destroy the infrastructure when finished. Bonus points: they can do it with spot pricing to further lower the bill. The cloud offers immense flexibility and empowers _developers_ to easily manage their own infrastructure without depending on other teams. Speed of development is the primary reason $DayJob is moving into the cloud, while maintaining bare-metal for platforms which rarely change.