You can find almost any scientific data you ever dreamed of online. Good chance is your home computer will crunch the numbers at ease. If not, just rent a bigger box from AWS/Azure/GCP/other and pay by minute.

Let’s try the latter. Let’s explore if Cloud Computing is of any help to astrophysics’ (and broader science) enthusiasts. Can we take advantage of virtually limitless compute, storage and networking power and don’t go bankrupt?