“Now, we are the perfect candidates for cloud computing. We need every single computer we can put our hands on, we need them 24 hours a day and seven days a week. But we only need them for 10 weeks. So rather than buying all of them, we go up in the cloud, we spin them up when we need them and spin them down when we’re done.”
Source: Los Angeles Times April 18, 2019 00:45 UTC