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Instead of buying hardware, you rent capacity and pay for what you use. The upside is scaling up on demand; the tradeoff is that your data leaves your machine. Work involving sensitive material is often safer locally.
Code you upload runs somewhere other than your own computer.
Why it mattersIt decides where a model lives. Early on, cost and accessibility dominate; later, where the data sits and how fast it moves matter more.
ExampleInstead of buying hardware, you rent capacity and pay for what you use. The upside is scaling up on demand; the tradeoff is that your data leaves your machine. Work involving sensitive material is often safer locally.