The developers are very generous too. 4 years back when I was in college I reached out to them and asked for a student discount. They gave me free access to Tailwind UI ( under a restricted license).
I do have a Windows machine with an nVidia GPU (RTX 2070 Super), but I don't use it anymore (bought it years ago).
ML on the cloud is way more convenient because you can trivially adjust your cost based on what you're doing: Training? spin up something big/expensive. Inference? cheaper (less VRAM) is usually fine.
I also like that I can run multiple instances simultaneously, something that would be prohibitively expensive if I had to have multiple machines sitting around waiting for me to use them.
If possible can you suggest me a lof vanilla products. My team is building a platform that allows anyone to spinup instances on any cloud platform. We’re planning to add support for DNS management ( Route53, Google cloud DNS& Azure DNS) and storage buckets