Pretty much my evaluation as well. Maybe it could be useful for arbitrary compute operations that you aren't entirely sure how long will take to run? Like computing an implied vol surface "all at once" when you don't own your own data center or something and aren't doing it all the time.
Another point of contention in my view is the fact that either they'll lock it down like they do on those online "computing environments" where you can't do any low level stuff or any networking (like IDEone, etc), or it'll be too open and thus you can use it to spread malware, or run DDOSes.
I guess that it makes sense that such an offering is present in the modern ecosystem among many other offerings but other than the interest of completeness, I don't really see the value-add. But I'm just a random engineer on the internet, I probably am not representative of all potential use-cases
Another point of contention in my view is the fact that either they'll lock it down like they do on those online "computing environments" where you can't do any low level stuff or any networking (like IDEone, etc), or it'll be too open and thus you can use it to spread malware, or run DDOSes.
I guess that it makes sense that such an offering is present in the modern ecosystem among many other offerings but other than the interest of completeness, I don't really see the value-add. But I'm just a random engineer on the internet, I probably am not representative of all potential use-cases