I can highly recommend Shadow aswell, a friend of mine uses it and for online multiplayer it is a really nice option. It I didn’t own a decent PC I probably would choose that to play my Steam games.
Does it have a time limitation? I mean if this has the power of a Nvidia 1080 for 13€/month one could surely use this as a blender renderfarm 24/7...
I was actually thinking about the same with respect to training machine learning models; but I think they might have something in terms and conditions prohibiting that
Auto shutdown after 15-30 min of inactivity, keepalive stuff is against tos and permbannable
Must keep clicking/typing into it
+1 for Shadow. I can play competitive FPS games and actually beat people running traditional rigs.
The only downsides are related to the max storage and shared CPU. Apparently they have future offerings for $50/mo that add up to a TB of storage and stronger CPUs.
Also going to sound like an ad, but I stream PC VR from a cloud Shadow PC to my Oculus Quest over 5GHz Wi-Fi (effectiveness is really dependent on your proximity to their data centers) but it is really remarkable how effective it is. It is more lag than streaming from a local PC but not to the point where most games are unplayable. I can also play the same games with the same saves from my phone with their app using a Bluetooth-paired gaming controller. Couldn't be happier with their service.
I use Shadow now and it is much better. I have full control over the PC/VM, and install whatever I want from anywhere. I'm also super impressed with the latency - I can play multiplayer competitive games no problem.
I'm on a Mac so cloud gaming makes sense for me. I was going to build a PC but the cost was too high. Much cheaper to just pay ~$15/month.
This sounds like an ad, so to get back on topic -- if Amazon's Luna doesn't let you install whatever you want, it wont be able to compete.