Comparing laptop SSD to cloud network drive is misleading. EC2 provides the *d VMs that have SSDs with high IOPS at much lower cost than network SSDs. They are

Comparing laptop SSD to cloud network drive is misleading. EC2 provides the *d VMs that have SSDs with high IOPS at much lower cost than network SSDs. They are ephemeral, but so is laptop and its SSD - it can loose the data. From AWS docs "If you stop, hibernate, or terminate an instance, data on instance store volumes is lost.".