2.2 Why use the cloud?

The Cloud offers advantages:

• Less waiting: jobs start faster, and don’t get clogged up during busy hours
• Massive scalability: Submit thousands of jobs at once.
• Massive Storage: Store huge amounts of data for (relatively) cheap.
• Repeatability: You can share your exact code, environment, software versioning, etc, and others can repeat your analysis and get the exact same result