If you need to spawn 10-100+ instances for heavy computation tasks - then AWS and alikes are the only choice.
@$2k/mo+/instance - for smaller scale research it is way cheaper to buy high performance GPU card(s) yourself and use them without unpredictable recurring cost issues. Computers are cheap.
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