I synced an Ethereum fullnode on one of Linode's most powerful instances, it was fast but seemed like it should be faster. I was posting issues on github about how this wasn't working fast enough

a lot of tutorials online is about people trying to get their raspberri pi to sync blockchains, so I was prepared for the worst

but then I put together an 8 year old desktop and it synced in 2 days

kind of underwhelmed at "cloud" options. but they work