reliability—obviously, the startup would have to earn the reputation for reliability, but there’s nothing inherently stopping it.
etc—AWS is a beast, relatively speaking, and this offers a lot of smaller PCs for a short amount of time. I can’t really think of a reason where that would be needed for computing, but as network relays it would be very useful. You could create your own custom Tor and deploy it on demand.
cost—you pay in your own CPU cycles/bandwidth.
reliability—obviously, the startup would have to earn the reputation for reliability, but there’s nothing inherently stopping it.
etc—AWS is a beast, relatively speaking, and this offers a lot of smaller PCs for a short amount of time. I can’t really think of a reason where that would be needed for computing, but as network relays it would be very useful. You could create your own custom Tor and deploy it on demand.