Yeah, esp. the AWS provider is pretty memory-intensive. I believe someone on the team did some investigation into this (running providers remotely) but it's no

Yeah, esp. the AWS provider is pretty memory-intensive. I believe someone on the team did some investigation into this (running providers remotely) but it's not really a priority (if it is for you, feel free to voice that on the issue tracker!). Frankly though, with pricing for cloud instances being generally linear wrt to the CPU/memory size of the instance, I don't think there's much reason to prefer many smaller machines over just using a larger single one and avoiding all this added complexity.