For me? Well, I'm a computational epidemiologist, so targeting science is exactly it's advantage. PiCloud allows the use of AWS resources fairly seamlessly from

For me? Well, I'm a computational epidemiologist, so targeting science is exactly it's advantage. PiCloud allows the use of AWS resources fairly seamlessly from inside scripts, iPython notebooks, etc. They're also very responsive to questions, and their package is far, far easier to use for the things I use it for than trying to build something myself via AWS, Rackspace, etc. Disclosure: They also gave me a $500 research grant.