I develop GPU accelerated web apps in an EC2 instance with a remote VSCode session. A lot of the time I’m just doing web dev and don’t need a GPU. I can save thousands per month by switching to this.
Well, for the time being I'm really just burning AWS credits. But you're right! I do however like that my dev machine is the exact same instance type in the same AWS region as my production instances. If I built an equivalent machine it would have different performance characteristics. Often times the AWS VMs have weird behavior that I would otherwise be caught off guard with when deploying to the cloud for the first time.
